How to hide or remove completed tasks in Outlook?
It’s easy for most users to remove a completed task from Microsoft Outlook. However, what if remove all completed tasks quickly in Outlook? And what if only hide all completed tasks without removing in Outlook? In this article, I will introduce ways to hide and remove completed tasks in Microsoft Outlook easily.
Quickly hide all completed tasks in Outlook
Quickly remove all completed tasks in Outlook
Quickly hide all completed tasks in Outlook
This is an easy way to hide all completed tasks from current task folder quickly in Microsoft Outlook.
Step 1: Shift to the Tasks view, and click to open the task folder that you will hide all completed tasks from.
Step 2: Click the "Change View" > "Active" on the "View" tab. See screen shot below:
Then you will see all completed tasks disappear at once.
You can also hide all completed tasks with clicking the "Change View" > "To-do List" on the "View" tab (or "View" > "Current View" > "To-Do List" in Outlook 2007).
Quickly remove all completed tasks in Outlook
Normally Outlook users remove a completed task with selecting it and pressing the "Delete" key on the keyboard. To mass remove completed tasks, some users may arrange tasks by completed, and then select all and batch remove them at once. Here I will introduce another easy way to remove all completed tasks from current tasks folder.
Step 1: Shift to the Tasks view, and click to open the tasks folder that you will remove all completed tasks from.
Step 2: Click the "Change View" > "Completed" on the "View" tab.
Step 3: Select all completed tasks with pressing the "Ctrl" + "A" keys on the keyboard, and then remove them all with pressing the "Delete" key.
Step 4: In the popping up Microsoft Outlook dialog box, please click the "OK" button.
Note: This warning Microsoft Outlook dialog box won’t come out if you have checked the "Do not show this message again" in it before.
Step 5: Shift to other task views with clicking "Change View" > "Simple List" on the "View" tab (or "View" > "Current View" > "Simple List" in Outlook 2007).
Actually, it’s up to you to show tasks in any view mode of "Change view" except the Completed view mode.
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