Optionally: Select a keyboard shortcut combination.From the Choose an Action list select one of the following:.From the Quick Steps gallery, choose: Create New.You can speed up the above process by using a Quick Step and also assign a custom shortcut to it. Create a Quick Step to turn an e-mail message into a Task This won’t give you the “with Attachment” option though. To create a Task with the message attached, drag & dropĮxtra Tip: If you don’t like using drag & drop, you can also use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+Y top open the “Copy Items” dialog and select the Tasks folder. If you’d rather have the original message attached to the Task, you can drag & drop the e-mail message with your right mouse button to get the option “Copy Here as Task with Attachment”. You can now quickly set a reminder by using the Follow Up option of the Task form or set a custom reminder by using the date and time fields.įollow Up options for Tasks in an IMAP mailbox allows you to set a Reminder. This will automatically create a new Task with the same subject of the message and the message text copied into the body of the Task. Drag & drop e-mail message on Tasks Folder or Tasks NavigationĪ quick workaround, which works in any version of Outlook, is to drop the message onto a Tasks folder or onto the Task Navigation button in the left bottom corner of Outlook. However, when you flag it with a normal flag, it will still show up in your To-Do Bar but under the “No Date” group.Īs a workaround, you can drag and drop the message on a Tasks folder or create a Quick Step to turn a message into a Task with reminder without losing the actual message itself.įollow Up options for IMAP messages are very limited. This is a limitation of the IMAP protocol itself which doesn’t support reminder flags. When you are using an IMAP account, you do not have the option to set a custom Follow Up Flag with a reminder.
Is there still a way to mark my messages for follow up or at least get them to show up as a Task in my To-Do Bar?
This might have something to do with the fact that I'm using a IMAP account. There are no options such as Today, Tomorrow, This Week, Next Week, etc. I'm trying to set a reminder on a message but I only have the option to flag it or to clear the flag.
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