{"id":4022,"date":"2017-11-09T06:26:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2018-01-22T07:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:36:09","slug":"changing-views-in-windows-outlook-to-do-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/changing-views-in-windows-outlook-to-do-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Views in Windows Outlook To-Do Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nov 9, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Note: this article is presented in new Video #30 just added to the\u00a0MYN Outlook 365 Complete Video Training<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

One of the great things about Windows Outlook is the ability to save and activate various views in all of Outlook\u2019s main modules (Mail, Tasks, Contacts, Calendar). I especially like using various views in the Tasks folder<\/em> <\/strong>because you can use them to filter out or show certain types of tasks, prioritize them in different ways, and so on. The result is that that you make sure you focus on your most important tasks and don\u2019t waste time. It\u2019s an underused tool that I encourage you to try in the tasks folder, and it\u2019s easy to do: simply go to the View tab in the Tasks module and choose Change Views.<\/p>\n

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In the resulting menu you can pick from a number of preset views, or\u00a0you can\u00a0build and add your own views using Manage Views at the bottom (in Chapter 12 of my Outlook book, I\u00a0suggest many you might want to build).\u00a0The software MYN Views<\/a> adds\u00a0several views, ones useful to MYN users, to this menu.<\/p>\n

No Change View for To-Do Bar<\/strong><\/p>\n

However that said, I\u2019ve never found a way to do this in the To-Do Bar, where you must make all view changes one at a time\u2014you can\u2019t save and select sets of view changes and recall them. Since in MYN and 1MTD we mostly use the To-Do Bar to manage tasks, this has been a needed feature in Outlook for years.<\/p>\n

A Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, thanks to reader Thomas Miquelon, I\u2019ve discovered there IS a way. Thomas points out that you can add a Change View button to the Quick Access toolbar, and that button\u00a0does<\/em> work with the To-Do Bar. It allows you to create and\u00a0then open various special and useful task views in the To-Do Bar, ones that can help you get tasks done.<\/p>\n

Adding and Using Change View in the To-Do Bar<\/strong><\/p>\n

As mentioned above, I just put a video out on how to do this on the MYN Outlook 365 Complete Video Training<\/a>, new video number 30 (for paid users), but here is the gist of how to do this in Outlook 2016:<\/p>\n

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  1. Click the down arrow at the right edge of the Quick Access Toolbar in the upper left corner of the Outlook window.<\/li>\n
  2. Choose More Commands\u2026<\/li>\n
  3. At top of window change the “Popular Commands” dropdown to “All Commands”.<\/li>\n
  4. Scroll down to the C\u2019s in the list, and choose Change Views and click Add in the middle.<\/li>\n
  5. Click OK.<\/li>\n
  6. You\u2019ll see a button appear at the right of the Quick Access toolbar (upper left the Outlook Window). It looks like a curved arrow as shown below. That\u2019s it and you\u2019re now ready.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Using the Change View button<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Before clicking that button, select any task at random in the To-Do Bar (this is important).<\/li>\n
    2. Then click the Change View button you just added. The preset views you’ll see listed will be applied to the To-Do Bar if you select any of them. Now, that said, these preset ones are not very useful for the To-Do Bar because they are formatted for the larger Tasks folder. So\u00a0it\u2019s better to create new views. One you might want to create is the MYN To-Do Bar view itself so you can restore it at any time.<\/li>\n
    3. To do that, click Manage Views and then New, name it MYN Tasks, and then follow the steps in Chapter 3 of my Outlook book<\/a>\u00a0starting with section Adjusting the Columns. Create the entire view per those steps and then when done click Apply View. That places the view in the To-Do Bar.<\/li>\n
    4. After that if for some reason you lose or alter your To-Do Bar task settings, you can get them back by Just choosing any task at random in the To-Do Bar (doing that is important), and then using that Change View button you added above, and picking MYN Tasks.<\/li>\n
    5. And you can create\u00a0any other views for your To-Do Bar that meet your tasks needs. The video I mentioned above shows how to create three useful views. Or you might pattern new views after the views shown in Chapter 12 of the Outlook book.<\/li>\n
    6. From now on you can insert any of those views into the To-Do Bar any time you want per step 4.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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