How to assign and reassign tasks in Outlook?
Managing your workload is streamlined with Microsoft Outlook's Tasks feature. Beyond creating tasks for yourself, you can also delegate tasks to others. This guide will show you how to effortlessly assign tasks to colleagues within Outlook and how to reassign tasks you've received, ensuring efficient task management and collaboration.
Assign a new task to other people
Assign a built task to other people
Reassign tasks that other people assign to you
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Assign a new task to other people
If you need to create a new task and assign it to others immediately, you can follow these steps:
Step 1: Get into the Task Window and edit a new task.
You can click the Home > New Items > Task to get into the Task Window in Outlook.
Step 2: Click the Assign Task button in the Manage Task group under the Task tab in the Ribbon. See the following screenshot:
Step 3: Then specify the sender's email address in the From box, and specify the receiver's email address in the To box. 
Step 4: Click the Send button, and this newly built task is assigned to the people whose email addresses you typed in the To box.
Assign a built task to other people
Supposing you have created a task already, but now you need to assign it to other people, how to deal with it? There are a double of methods to assign a built task in Outlook.
Method A: Right-click the built task
First of all, click the Tasks in the navigation pane to display all tasks; secondly right click the built task you will assign, and then click the Assign Task item in the drop-down menu. See the following screenshot:
Now you will get into the Task Window, please enter email addresses in the To box, and click the Send button.
Method B: reopen and edit the built task by double-clicking
The other method is to reopen the built task by double-clicking the built task and then clicking the Assign Task button in the Manage Task group under the Task tab in the Ribbon. (See screenshot 1)
At last in the To box enter the email addresses of whom you will assign the built task to, and click the Send button.
Reassign tasks that other people assign to you
You may have received a task before, and now you need to reassign this task to others, how? You can do it with the following steps:
Step 1: Get the assigned email you received, and open it by double-clicking.
Step 2: Now you get into a Task Window. See the following screenshot. Click the Assign Task button in the Manage Task group under the Task Tab.
Step 3: In the To box, enter the names or email addresses you will reassign the task.
Step 4: Click the Send button.
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