Hence, it is necessary to make effective precautions to prevent that. It’ll be quite miserable to suffer data loss, including Outlook data loss. Immediately, these tasks will be assigned to the predefined recipient.Finally, click the macro button in Quick Access Toolbar.

Later, select the tasks to be assigned.

After that, add this macro to Quick Access Toolbar.

MsgBox lTaskCount & ' tasks have been assigned!', vbInformation + vbOKOnly

'Alter the recipient email address as per your needs

If TypeOf objSelection(i) Is TaskItem Then

Next, put the following VBA code into a module.

At the very outset, go to Outlook VBA editor by referring to “ How to Run VBA Code in Your Outlook“.

Method 2: Batch Assign Tasks with Outlook VBA

Finally, you can add the recipient, compose and send out the mail at will.

In this mail, all the selected tasks have been attached.

At once, a new email will be displayed.

Then, click the “Forward” button in the “Respond” group on “Home” tab.

To start with, in a Tasks folder, press “Ctrl” key and meanwhile select all the tasks you want to assign.

Method 1: Forward Tasks as Attachments in an Email Hence, in the followings, we’ll share 2 much more efficient and convenient methods with you. But, this means is too tedious in the case where you want to assign many tasks. In general, to assign a task, you have to open it, and click “Assign Task” button, fill recipient in “To” field and lastly click “Send” button. In this article, we’ll show you such 2 approaches.Īt times, for some reasons, you need to assign several existing tasks in your own Tasks folder to someone. If you have created multiple tasks in your Outlook and now want to assign them to one person, you will long for methods to batch assign them.

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