Outlook Task List / Todo list is no where to be found in the NEW Outlook Desktop.

Anonymous
2023-05-05T16:43:24+00:00

OKAY, So I was offered to try out the new outlook desktop today and to be honest I'm in love with the new look.

In addition to being able to now PIN important emails to the top, it also now seems to integrate with Gmail to import and save all of your contacts !!, Another feature that has been missing from outlook forever !!

Anyways, Microsoft and all their wisdom seems to remove functionality or break stuff whenever they think they're fixing and it appears now that the tasks / todo list is nowhere to be found...

MS pointed me to support article that specifically says that they do still have tasks / to-do and that it has been relocated to (MY DAY) Top right hand corner, But there is no tab that says Todo as stated in their support article... see my attached screen shot..

according to the Microsoft article there should be a tab right next to the calendar tab --

Here is the link for the MS article.--Use My Day in Outlook - Microsoft Support

I only use Gmail accounts. I do not use my Microsoft account as my default email provider ... So I'm concerned that the reason why the to-do list isn't showing up for me is because perhaps Gmail doesn't support this functionality (and or) the new outlook can't integrate with Gmail properly...

Please help.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-26T00:14:52+00:00

    Jennifer - nice of you to chime in. But I am not sure you addressed the issue - THERE IS NO way to add an email to TASKS anymore in the new outlook. You can try to follow a drag and drop but it just has a bit old X moused up when you hover.

    And the support desk uses a version of the Nav that i cannot replicated after 3x downloading new OUTLOOK.

    So any other advice - because this was an issue (touted as a benefit) 2 years ago and it STILL does not work.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-01T13:29:23+00:00

    Not sure if I'm asking this correctly but I'll give it a try. Has anyone tried configuring you New Outlook to send emails from your outlook.com account while retaining your gmail address as the sender? Will that allow the To list to appear?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-27T15:14:44+00:00

    These instructions do not match the update, it matches 365.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-05T05:27:06+00:00

    Same issue, and I need my tasks and flagged items.

    But also noticed another issue due to this being a "cloud only" setup.

    To save on online storage, I have created a "personal folder" and dragged some email folders into that. This creates not an email account, rather just a .pst file on my harddrive so I can archive old emails.

    It's not possible to do this with the new outlook. you MUST have a cloud email account.

    Here's hoping they don't force the change over, or I'll be looking for a new email software.

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