Tip 813: Show only tasks in the To-Do list

This question comes from an Outlook user: “Outlook 2010 switches to the “To-Do List” view and doesn’t remember my preference for just seeing active items in the To-do folder. I can’t see any option to remove the To-do list folder or a way to set the Tasks folder as the default Outlook displays when I select the Tasks pane.“

Answer: You can’t remove the To-do list folder or change the default to Tasks, but you can create a view for the To-Do that displays only Tasks. Go into View Settings (or Customize view in Outlook 2007), Create a filter for the view – go to the Advanced tab of the filter dialog and create a filter for ‘Message Class contains ipm.task’

If the custom view doesn’t stick, restart outlook using the /cleanviews switch then create the view

A tutorial is available here: Filter the To-Do list to show only Tasks

Published Dec 14 2010

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Tags: custom views, filters, tasks, to-do

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Last reviewed on May 1, 2012