How to complete a task and make a reminder task two weeks away

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How can I complete a task today for example I have a task to send Joe a
file for completion by 09/27/2003. I want to be able to make notes in
the task today and then show today's task completed. However I then want
to put a reminder on my task list for 09/27 to ask Joe where the file
is. Is this possible. I have office XP running on Win@K exchange server.
 
Benkong2 said:
How can I complete a task today for example I have a task to send Joe a
file for completion by 09/27/2003. I want to be able to make notes in
the task today and then show today's task completed. However I then want
to put a reminder on my task list for 09/27 to ask Joe where the file
is. Is this possible. I have office XP running on Win@K exchange server.
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Let me restate this and see if someone would be willing to help.

I would like to create a task for myself today 09/25. As I work on
this task I will complete the first portion today and need to follow
up on this same item in five days on 09/30.

How can I show the task completed for today and create a new task with
the notes from today's for five days in the future.

So that in five days I get a task on my task list that says follow-up
on task from 09/25.

Please help Thank you
 
You can do this by following these steps:

1) Create a new task with all the usual fields filled out -- subject,
dates, reminder, etc. Give it a due date of today.

2) Click the Recurrence button on the toolbar. Make it a Daily
recurrence, every 5 days (if you want the next occurrence to be 5 days
from today), and tell it to end after 2 occurrences since you want the
next occurrence in 5 days to be the last one. Also click "Regenerate
new task 5 day(s) after each task is completed".

3) When the task reminder comes up later today, or when you open the
task manually after today's portion has been taken care of, first add
any notes you need to add, then mark the task complete. Close the task.

4) Look at your Task list. You will see that a new task with a due date
of 5 days from now has been created, and it will include your notes from
the last task.

If I missed anything you wanted to do, please post back.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
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