Thanks for taking the time to write the detailed explanation Chuckdevee. I will play around with it to see if Auto formatting will do what I am looking for.
Thanks again. Appreciated! On Apr 27, 8:35 pm, chuckdevee <[email protected]> wrote: > From what I understand you have said Roger, the automatic formatting > rules should solve your issues, if you have the Professional Edition. > (Tools/Options/Automating Formatting). > > For the first issue, just create anewrule with the condition that ataskhas a > certain colour (text/background/side bar/ highlight) or > even format (font/emboldened etc) when either the creation date is > within X days, or the start date is within X days. Or you could have > apply an icon to these tasks which says "NEW", in which case in your > todo list, you'd have to add in a column to showtaskicons of > course. > > As for your second issue, I'd recomend the following (although > everyone will have a different way of doing this). Create a category > called 'waiting for', as you have done. Then create an automatic > formatting rule that gives tasks with this category a specific format > (grey background? or bright red text? etc). (Be careful of where you > put it as these formatting rules are done in order and you don't want > it over-written by another rule.) Then go into the contexts editor and > assign a hot key (say, 'alt W') to this category. What you'll have > is that any fortaskthat is in 'waiting for' mode, simply press 'alt > W' and the format of thetaskwill toggle 'Waiting For' format on and > off. > > By the way, there's a free programme called IcoFX which you can use to > create icons from pictures saved from the internet and just drop > thesenewicons into the MLO icon folder if you need additional icons - I > use it all the time. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
