Comments on: Outlook: Convert email messages into tasks or meetings!

By: sachin

sachin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:53:48 +0000

Nice tip…

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:32:07 +0000

I am the email point of contact for 50+ people from multiple departements that send their job requests to me. In any given day, I can get 40-50 different job requests.

In turn, I assign the job requests to employees to complete. The employees are to respond to me and the original sender with their response.

My problem is the tracking to make sure that assignments are completed.

Currently I send the request and cc myself. I move the original email, my cc in a folder that I have marked assigned. When the person that received the assigment lets me know its completed, I move the original email from assigned to completed along with the response and delete my cc.

As you guessed it, this does not work out well. On top of this, my email box gets about 400 emails per work day. (yikes)

I have been told that I need to make sure that I make the assignments completed daily AND I have to follow up on uncompleted tasks.

Any help on how to manage this in outlook 2003 on a network would be appreciated. This is a new process and I am trying to insure that I have a handle on this.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:40:03 +0000

I have always wanted to be able to automatically create a task that would result from an e-mail that I send to one of my team mates. Any thoughts on how this might be done short of just creating a task assignment? Sometimes the e-mails can be fairly long or include attachments that result in the need for one or more peopple to respond. Any thoughts? Thanks – Bernard

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:30:12 +0000

It’s my work email, but unfortunately the IT guys have no clue… so I’m trawling the internet! Thanks anyway :)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:38:32 +0000

Emma: Wow. Haven’t a clue. Is this a work account or personal? If work, definitely chat with your IT folks.