There are numerous methods to keep track of your tasks from online, COMPUTER, and mobile tools to old-fashioned methods such as post-it notes as well as scraps of paper. Nevertheless, if you work in Word typically, you can monitor your jobs directly in Word.

There is a free app, called TaskIt, readily available for Word that permits you to produce and track jobs by creating a list straight in Word that is instantly conserved. You can add brand-new tasks to TaskIt while in Word and also they are retained when Word is shut. The following time you open the program and also the TaskIt application, your jobs will certainly show once again, even if you didn’t save changes made to the document.

Update: This application is no longer readily available in the United States.

KEEP IN MIND: Make certain Word is closed before mounting the application.

To add TaskIt to Word, go to the TaskIt web page on the Office Store. Click Add.

To mount applications from the Office store, you should have a Microsoft account (Live, Hotmail, etc). Log right into your Microsoft account on the Sign in page.

Microsoft offers a message defining what the app will certainly be able to do. If you are alright with these things, click Continue.

A home window displays while your order is being completed (despite the fact that it’s a totally free application), alerting you not to close the internet browser home window.

When the order is total, a page displays showing you exactly how to begin utilizing your brand-new application for Office. You can shut your internet browser home window at this point.

Open up Word and click the Insert tab. In the Apps area, click My Apps.

On the Apps for Office dialog box, click TaskIt in the list of applications and also click Insert.

NOTE: Clicking on the down-arrow on the My Apps switch presents a Recently Used Apps menu. You can easily reopen apps utilizing this food selection.

The TaskIt app shows in a pane to the right of your current record or the vacant document.

NOTE: You can move the TaskIt pane by clicking and also dragging the TaskIt title to another part of words window or screen.

To include a job, enter a description for the task in the edit box as well as press Enter.

The job displays with a check box for showing when it’s total.

When you click the check box to show the job is total, it is crossed out. Completed tasks are not displayed the following time you fill the TaskIt app.

To delete a task, simply move your mouse over the task as well as click the red X.

To the close the TaskIt app, click the X in the upper-right edge of the TaskIt pane.

Keep in mind, there is no demand to save your tasks. They are automatically conserved and are preserved even after closing the application as well as Word.

There are a few other points to bear in mind regarding TaskIt: