Have you ever before discovered that the To-Do bar in Outlook 2007 doesn’t show you what sort of thing remains in the list? Maybe a task or a flagged e-mail, however which one is it? With an easy modify you can add the icon column to conveniently distinguish them.

This isn’t actually a hack, it’s just an useful setting tweak that hadn’t struck me before, so I figured I would certainly write it up for everybody.

Now you can see at a glimpse that a person of the things is from your job list, and the others are emails that were flagged for followup:

Adding the Icon Column to the To-Do List View

Just right-click on the column listing and select Custom …

Then click the Fields button …

And after that include the Icon column from the left side, and also ensure you utilize the “Move Up” choice to relocate to the top of the list on the right-hand side.

It’s an actually simple pointer, however really valuable!