How can I show Tasks in Outlook 2010's Calendar?

Question

I've been using the Outlook 2010 calendar for about 2 years now, but I haven't been able to figure out yet how to use the Tasks feature: How can I have Outlook 2010 display my tasks in the calendar view, e.g. in the day cells of the month view?

So far, I haven't used the Tasks feature and always stored tasks as calendar items, but it seems contradictory to me to be having a Tasks feature that I'm not using, and instead creating calendar items that I then categorize as something I called "Task" (and associated with an easily visible color).

Obviously, I'm missing something, but I couldn't find any information on where to find an option to display the tasks in the calendar.

Solution 1

I was wondering the same thing and just found something that works. If you view your calender in "month view" and have the "To Do" bar showing. (Mine is on the right side) You can drag the "task" item and drop it onto the correct day on your calender. Then when you print your calender all your appointments and tasks will appear together.

Solution 2

In Outlook 2010, try the following steps:

1. Navigate to your Calendar.

2. On the Ribbon, Click on View.

3. Look for the Layout Section.

4. Click on Daily Task List.

5. Click on Normal.

   

6. Click on Daily Task List and for Arrange by, choose Due Date.

At the bottom of the Calendar, you should see a section with your tasks:

This should work nicely in either Day, Work Week, or Week views (in the Arrange Section in the Ribbon). The screenshot above was taken in Week view.

Note: The Tasks do not display in the Month view.

Solution 3

There is a third party solution here: http://tasktocal.com/ It puts the tasks in the "cells" of you calendar and thus "occupy" a timeslot.

Solution 4

Thanks for posting this question, because I have often wondered about this but had not taken time to investigate. Here is what I found so far.

It appears tasks are only visible at the bottom of the calendar when in the day and week views. As an alternative to that, you can also turn on the "To Do" bar in your inbox or calendar view which will list tasks to the right.

Here is more information about viewing tasks.

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Comments

[O. R. Mapper]

So they cannot be displayed along with calendar items in e.g. month view? :-(

[O. R. Mapper]

That doesn't seem to be what I am looking for. I can drag tasks onto the calendar irrespective of the current view, but what is happening then is that a new event is created with some textual information about the task. e.g. I can define a task that is due on Nov 30, and drag that onto Nov 28, thus creating an event that says "Due date: Nov 30". That seems pointless to me; neither is the due date of the task visible in the calendar automatically like that, nor are later changes in the task reflected in the event. Like that, I could just do away with the task and just create an event myself.