Feb 22 2022 08:23 AM
Hello
I hope someone can help to explain how the "Assign a task" works in excel comment. I notice when someone assigned me a task by creating a comment on Excel, and click assign a task. I would get an email notification about the task, but this task is not shown anywhere in my task on outlook, teams or to do.
Anyone can help to explain.
thanks
Ryan
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Oct 06 2022 03:05 AM - edited Oct 06 2022 03:06 AM
@Shane O' Malley Perhaps the blog post in the link below is what you are looking for. Came out about two weeks ago. Insiders only, though.
https://insider.office.com/en-us/blog/assign-tasks-with-mentions-in-excel
Oct 06 2022 03:14 AM
Oct 06 2022 11:44 AM
Same here - we are using the feature and great about excel. BUT it only sends an email, no addition to a co-ordinated task list - fingers crossed
Mar 05 2023 01:41 PM
@Jin Chen Has anyone seen any updates related to this yet? We discovered we can use this task assignment functionality recently and while it is nice it seems the tasks would quickly become lost if they don't show up in Tasks/Planner or a dashboard view for users to track their assigned tasks. The document we were collaborating on when we tested it was in a Teams/Sharepoint library so I assumed there was a 'Plan' in the background associated with the Team/SharePoint site that I would be able to find and make visible to the team but that did not appear to be the case.
Mar 23 2023 07:38 AM
Mar 24 2023 03:56 AM
@Simeon_Davies Still not seen it working for me. I do get an email about the task but does not appear on my Todo list under any of the categories.
May 02 2023 06:13 PM
Jun 01 2023 01:37 PM
Looking for the same answer. Glad I'm not alone?
Feb 06 2024 07:05 AM
Feb 06 2024 07:55 AM
@Rache2195 I am now seeing that functionality.
I I get an email notifing that the task has been assigned to me and i get a notification in the bell on the top right of Microsoft To-Do but i still dont see it on my list of items to do.
Will do some further testing with people with different levels of Office365 subscription
Feb 10 2024 07:36 AM
Feb 28 2024 05:04 AM
It's not a perfect solution, but you can flag the email notification as a to-do and it will then show up on your task list. It's not automated, but I'm sure you could set up a rule that would accomplish the same thing.