role of "role" column?

[Mike Burke]

I'm using Outlook 2003 Professional. One of the columns in my tasks details
screen is "role", but I can't find a place to make an entry for this column
in the task card. The only documentation I find refers to the roles of task
collaborators such as the Adminitrator and user.

I was expecting a place to distinguish tasks by the roles I play in my life,
such as Consultant, Father, Student, etc.. How useful is this column, and in
what context is it used?

Apparently Outlook won't map dependencies between tasks, but is there a
common way to arrange tasks under certain headings so that the subtasks for
all my "Father" tasks can be separated out? (Yup, I've already been adding
categories, so how about sub-categories?)

Thank you,

Mike Burke

 

[Judy Gleeson MVP - Outlook]

can't have sub-categories but you can group by up to 4 layers of fields. So
you could group By Category, then by Role.

Use the Group By box and manually learn how to group and ungroup. Then you
can do a double grouping.

I don't know what role does - use it as you want!

Judy Gleeson - MVP Outlook
Acorn Training and Consulting
Canberra, Australia
www.acorntraining.com.au
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