Outlook - Recurring Daily Tasks

[Paula De Niro]

Hi,

Yesterday I set some tasks, as I need to do several things at certain times every day. I had them set on Daily recurring, with no end date.

And yesterday, the first day of the tasks, everything went beautifully. A box came up and a sound was made, and I had the option to snooze or turn it off every time I had a reminder.

Today I get up and all my tasks are highlighted in red. So I click on them to make sure they are all gonna happen today as they did yesterday, but I have to manually change the date to today!

It also advises me that as the start date is in the past, I won't get a reminder! I NEED reminding every day - That's the whole point!!!

To add insult to injury, when I change everything manually, I end up with TWO identical tasks for each one, so I try to delete one, and immediately get a box reminding me to do the task NOW, despite it being nowhere near the time of the task!

What is the point of having a recurring function if I have to do everything manually each day?

Anyone know how I can set a daily task once, then forget about it? (til it reminds me to actually DO the task!)

I'm using Office 2000 with Windows XP btw.

Thanks

Paula

[Ghost_Hacker]

Did you select the "regenerate new task" option? Then when you mark a daily recurring task completed it will create a new one for the next day or whenever you have it set for.

Hope this helps :)

[Paula De Niro]

Hi
Yes, I did tick 'regenerate new task' but still I have to change the start date every day.

Everyone I've spoken to about this says it is wrong, and that it should alert me every day, if I just click dismiss each time.

[Ghost_Hacker]

Open the calendar view in Outklook and setup your recurring task as a recurring event ( set the duration to 5 min for example). Edit the other properties as needed.

This will allow you to dismiss each day's reminder and get another reminder the following day.


Hope this helps :)

[Paula De Niro]

Thanks a lot, only just seen your newer response.

I've just tried using appointments instead of tasks, and it's looking promising - lots of appointments are showing up for every day in the future!

Thanks again

Paula

[Paula De Niro]

Still working... Brilliant, thanks!

[Ghost_Hacker]

Glad to hear it :)