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Searching for TO DO tasks in Outlook
Here are the details from the Roadmap:
New Outlook for Windows - Search tasks using Microsoft To Do
Search across your task lists using the Microsoft To-Do module in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows, which will be available worldwide in March 2024 (Preview Users) & April 2024 (General Availability).
I am a preview user. I tested it and searched for a task in the To-Do. The functionality is available as Apr 10th.
1. From Outlook, click on the To Do icon from the left navigation. The app opens in the desktop client.
2. In the search bar, type the keyword. Notice that the location changes to an App instead of an Outlook mailbox or folder.
3. Your search results are returned.
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/Teresa
#traccreations4e 04/10/2024This does not work for me. The default is searching my inbox, even though I am in the ToDo screen and the only filters I can apply are for mailbox folders. The search does not find any tasks or terms that only appear in my ToDo tasks and not my emails.
The only way I can search in my ToDo is to open ToDo as a separate app outside of Outlook.
even then it doesn't work properly. As soon as I type one character in the search box the search is done, so I add the rest of the keyword in the address bar which then works as it should.
I work for an employer that doesn't allow other task management programs to be integrated, so I'm stuck with this broken edition of ToDo until Microsoft decides to fix it.
