Make the To-Do Bar work for you!

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Guy Burstein — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:10:21 GMT

Thanks, very helpful.

Is there any way to select an appointment from the To Do Bar and mark it for not to be shown at the To Do Bar? Some appointments in my calendar are just place holders, and I don't want them in this list.

Please advise,

Guy

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GoodThings2Life — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:46:45 GMT

The To Do Bar is by far my favorite feature in Outlook 2007. That said, I'd like to take a moment to offer a suggestion for the Outlook To Do Bar (for Service Pack 2, perhaps?).

It's already possible to create tasks quickly using the To Do bar, but why not calendar appointments? My thoughts:

1. Have the option to RIGHT CLICK on the calendar day and have a selection of New Appointment.

2. Have a Task List-esque entry field that automatically prompts for Date/Time when you press Enter (along with an "Advanced Options" that opens the full appointment window).

3. Be able to Double-Click a blank space on the "Upcoming Appointments" list to open the "New Appointment" window.

Any/All of these solutions would be great improvements over a feature that is already fantastic! :)

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Andrew — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:58:21 GMT

Is there a way to make the To Do Bar show calendar events from a calendar other than the main calendar? Preferably, I'd like it to show events from two different calendars I use.

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outblog — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:32:11 GMT

Andrew: The To Do Bar only shows appointments and meetings from your default calendar. There is no way to configure it to show items from a different calendar.

I'll make sure your suggestion is recorded as part of our planning for a future release.

--Ryan

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Jakub Anderwald — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:02:50 GMT

I think everyone said it already, but please allow the To-Do bar to show all-day events as well. After you've removed the "Mailbox" home page with collumns for appointments & tasks, there's no good way of having an overview of the calendar apart from to-do bar.

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Nathan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:23:16 GMT

Is there any way to make a different calendar the default so that the to-do bar references it without changing the default data file? I use an exchange server at work and on my personal laptop ever since I installed my exchange account I have lost access to my personal appointments on the to-do bar on my laptop.

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Milly Staples - MVP Outlook — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:21:42 GMT

To Nathan - you cannot split the default store into different folders. If Exchange is your default, you cannot split out the calendar from your Personal Folders to show in the To Do Bar. You would need to change your default mail store to accomplish that. It is an all or nothing proposition.

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Kurt — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:41:01 GMT

Back to the to-do bar calendar issue.

I have two calendars, the "default" one tied to my .pst file (which I used to use), and the one on the remote Exchange 2007 server (which I now use).

While I can seem to make the remote calendar be the default one; as it's now on top (and displayed by default when viewing the the calendar view), I still can't ge the to-do bar to show events from the other calendar which resides on the server and is also synced with my smartphone in real time.

I guess Microsoft missed the "big picture" here.

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Doug — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:17:13 GMT

The main thing I wish the To-Do bar would do is to navigate to emails in the email list when you select a to do item that is actually a flagged email. Double clicking just opens the email, but I want to go to the conversation thread with the flagged email.

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steve — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:39:31 GMT

how can i get/download the "to do Bar" . i have office 2003

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outblog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:55:59 GMT

Hi Steve,

The ToDo Bar is an Outlook 2007-only feature and is not available in Outlook 2003.

Thanks!

-michael

-Outlook Program Manager

Missing calendar items in To Bar

Peter Breeze — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:08:23 GMT

I have items on my calendar that are not on the to do bar. Some of them are all day event, some are not. They are all in my default folder. What is the criteria for calender items to be on the to do bar?

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Kirk Justus — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:43:12 GMT

I have a question about the To-Do Bar. It appears to be the next incarnation of the Task Pad. I use it often, but am frustrated by the loss of a particular bit of functionality.

In Outlook 2003 (and 02 and 00) the task pad defaulted to Today's tasks. Which is great for monitoring my day. But these earlier versions had a better setting that no longer exists. In the VIEW menu, TASKPAD VIEW submenu, I could select ACTIVE TASKS FOR SELECTED DAYS.

The taskpad would then show me only the work that was active for today (Like it does now), but would also allow me to select a day or range of days in the future to see what my workload was on those days.

It that feature still available? If not that might be nice to add it back in in the next service pack. It was a killer option for people who manage their time and workloads.

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Jim T — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:09:36 GMT

Is there a way to get the calendar in Outlook 2007 to have the box format of 2003? The column look is too narrow to show all day events and the to-do-bar does not show the events either.

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Nick brearley — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:12:54 GMT

Is there anyway of creating a template for a group of to-do tasks as part of a bigger recurring job?

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Donal O'Sullivan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:43:17 GMT

Is there any way to get the To-Do Bar to also look at archived email? Because of our corporate policy on InBox size, I have to archive my emails daily. When the emails with flags are archived, they disappear off the To-Do Bar.

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Jeramie — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:26:24 GMT

+1 for the to-do bar showing events from ALL calendars

+1 for showing all day events

From the amount of posts on these two topics alone, I'd hope it'd be a top priority to get out in an update soon. Thanks for the attention to the matter.

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cbellero — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:02:49 GMT

For those that have problems with reminders and the to-do bar...

I found under Tools - Account Settings - Date Files, that I had two "Personal Folders". They both had the same name and filename. One was designated default, the other not. I deleted the non-default one and restarted outlook. Now everything works great!

Just be careful. This might lead to BCM not working... :( I just fixed one problem and created another.

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Kivi — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:28:54 GMT

When minimized, the To-Do Bar shows just one appointment. Which is great, but the appointment it shows is the one you're already at. It would be better if it showed the next appointment you need to get to.

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Judith — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:11:40 GMT

ALL DAY EVENTS, can they be shown?

Any chance we can get a separator between calendar items for today, tomorrow, etc?

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Val — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:26:27 GMT

Is there a way to see "All Day Events" in the TO-DO bar? I like everything else about it.

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Richard Thomas — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:58:30 GMT

My To-Do Bar shows 4 PAST MEETINGS at the top of the list. Two were two days ago, and Two were yesterday. I only want to see today and forward scheduled items!

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Richard Thomas — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:03:10 GMT

Also, would like to click on a future day in the To Do Bar calendar, and NOT jump to the Calendar view (replacing my mail view), but have the events for that day (and forward) on the To-Do Bar. (Another annoying behavior). Thanks

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Tom R — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:32:43 GMT

I would like to filter tasks so they will show on the to do bar if the start date is on or before the date I select on the To-Do Bar calendar.

I am almost able to make it work by creating Advanced Filter "Start Date on or before Today", but that does not show tasks that are to start on a future date when that date is selected on the calendar.

Also there appears to be no way to see what acceptable values are for the condition specified.

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Roy M — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:47:43 GMT

I have just had a microsoft exchange account added for work and now the todo bar shows my exchange calendar instead of my personal calendar. How do I change the todo bar settings so that it always shows my personal calendar.

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Varun M — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:22:20 GMT

My outlook To-Do bar setting seems to be very delicate. I used to have the tasks show up as Today, Tomorrow, This Week, and Next Week. I tried to change the Sort by setting and now I cant get back the Relative sorting, but am getting hard dates (April 14th, April 15th, etc). Can you help!

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Anup — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:07:30 GMT

Is there any way I can show the items from an internet calendar in the to-do bar? I really like the overlaid view in the calendar. It would have been nice if I can see the same entries in the to-do bar as well.