This post was written by MysticGeek, a tech blogger at the How-To Geek Blogs.

My favored feature of Outlook 2007 is the brand-new To-Do Bar, which shows you whatever on your plate at a glance. There are a great deal of attributes loaded into a tiny space, so we’ll go through a few of them with you.

To-Do Bar Display Options

To switch on the To-Do bar, simply click on View To-Do Bar, and afterwards pick from Normal or Minimized to open bench.

In Minimized mode, the To-Do Bar anchors to the right side of the Inbox, yet you can click the little arrows at the top to expand it.

You can likewise right-click on the To-Do bar to choose which alternatives you want to show. I wished to show the schedule and also job list, however didn’t wish to see the appointments.

Produce Appointments by Dragging to the Calendar

If you intend to develop an appointment, all you require to do is drag an e-mail or job product to the calendar, as well as it will certainly open up a brand-new consultation home window currently keyed to that day.

I find this attribute alone incredibly valuable.

Adding New Tasks Quickly

To include a brand-new job for today, just kind into the job bar and also struck the enter key.

The job will certainly after that appear under the Today column.

Marking Tasks Complete

To mark a job full, just left-click the warning. You might additionally right-click to rapidly transform the due date or add a pointer.

Organizing with Categories

Classifications are appointed by color so you can visually see the significance of each task at a glimpse.

To tailor the classification list, you can right-click the categories and then pick All Categories from the menu.

This will certainly take you to a screen where you can tailor the shades and category names, and also much better you can designate a faster way secret.

Hovering your computer mouse over a to-do list entry will certainly show you all the most vital details for a task. You can see that the classification is “Important” as well as the due date, which is simpler than needing to open each task.

There’s a lot extra that you can do with this function, like make the to-do bar just show today’s jobs.