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Is there a known issue with MS To Do inside Outlook hanging on links in tasks created from OneNote?
When creating an Outlook task in OneNote, the task appears in MS To Do with a link to the OneNote item. Clicking the link in the To Do app takes me to the item in OneNote, but if I do this from inside Outlook (with MS To Do set as the default task manager), the screen goes grey and no further action is possible in the To Do section. The only way to remove the lock is by stopping and restarting Outlook. I reported this issue in the Outlook forum where they (ChristyZhang) says she can reproduce but that it is a To Do problem and should be reported in this forum. Personally I believe it is an integration problem between To Do and Outlook as it works fine from the To Do desktop app.
steps to reproduce are below:
Here is a step by step of what I observe in the outlook client:
- is a pre-requisite: create an outlook task from anywhere in OneNote:
click on the to do icon in the left hand pane
- open the task that was created from OneNote
- click on the link right below
- the entire screen turns grey and the only way to get out is by closing outlook an restarting it:
In the outlook client click on To Do in the left pane
- is a pre-requisite: create an outlook task from anywhere in OneNote: