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How to automatically regenerate new tasks in Outlook?

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You may be familiar with recurring tasks in Outlook, but do you know task regeneration which will regenerate a task automatically in a given period after the task is completed? This article will guide you to change a task’s recurrence pattern for auto regeneration in Outlook.

Automatically regenerate new tasks in Outlook


Automatically regenerate new tasks in Outlook

Please follow below steps to automatically regenerate a task in Outlook.

1. In the "Tasks" view, please click "Home" > "New Task" to create a new task.

2. In the new Task window, please click "Task" > "Recurrence". See screenshot:

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3. In the popping out Task Recurrence dialog box, please do as follows:

(1) In the "Recurrence pattern" section, please check "Daily", "Weekly", "Monthly", or "Yearly" option as you need;
(2) Check the "Regenerate new task 1 week(s) after each task is completed" option. Note: the "week(s") will vary depending on the recurrence frequency you specified in Step (1).
(3) In the "Range of recurrence" section, please specify the date range of recurrence as you need;
(4) Click the "OK "button.

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4. Now you return to the Task window, please add subject, start date, end date, status, priority, etc. as you need, compose task note, and click "Task" > "Save & Close".

So far you have created a new task which will be regenerated automatically in certain days/weeks/months/years after each task is completed.


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