You can avoid the otherwise-necessary dragging Dwight quite accurately describes by using alwasy-on-top (web site here <http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/keep-window-always-on-top/5213/>; direct download link here <http://img.labnol.org/di/always-on-top.zip>.) It's just an Autohotkey script that toggles a window as always on top with Ctrl-Space. It takes almost no ram and sits in the taskbar with a "DI" icon. If you have an MLO window open but not maximized, you can keep it on top while you drag directly from Outlook instead of having to do the taskbar dance, which I tired of long ago.
Tuppence, -Michael On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Dwight Arthur <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Michael. No, I don’t know any way to do this without using drag&drop. > I tried a few ideas but nothing worked. > > > > I don’t know much about Windows 8 or later but I can tell you that > drag&drop is still viable on a small screen showing only a single open > window at a time on Windows 7. I won’t call it “easy” but it’s definitely > do-able. Bring up MLO, and make sure that the folder where you want to put > the new tasks is visible in the current view. Bring up Outlook (covering > MLO. Select the messages for which you want to create tasks. With multiple > messages highlighted, click-and drag on one of them in order to drag them > all. Drag them to the taskbar and hover (without dropping) over the MLO > icon in the taskbar. After hovering for a second or two, you will see MLO > move to the foreground, covering Outlook. Still being careful not to drop > the messages that you are dragging, drag them to the target folder in the > MLO window, then drop them. > > > > If you have the taskbar or some equivalent in Windows 8 you should be able > to use this. -Dwight > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Michael G. > *Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:24 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [MLO] Re: suggestion: Shift-Drop from Outlook to MLO > > > > Dwight, > > Do you know if there is anyway to do this without having to drag and drop? > i've been using a MS Surface Pro and like this feature that's easy to do > with a mouse and multiple windows open on a large screen. Couldn't find a > solution to do this without drag and drop which is difficult on a small > trouch screen. > > On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 12:29:39 AM UTC-5, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > The linkage between MLO and Outlook is arguably the stongest link MLO has > to any other application. I frequently open my email inbox, delete the > stuff I don't care about, respond to every message that can be dealt with > in 30 seconds or so, and drag what's left into MLO. The messages dropped > into MLO are converted to tasks with the email subject as the task caption > and the email body as the task note. Attachments, inline graphics and rich > text are lost which is unfortunate but the top of the task note is an > automatically created link back to the email, One click on the link and the > email pops open in all of its illustrated rich-text glory. Everything I > want to accomplish happens in a single click or drag/drop, making this > efficient and easy to use. With one exception. > > > > When you drop more than one message into MLO, a pop up window asks if you > want to create a separate task for each message, or a single task > comprising all of them. After the thousandth time you answer that question, > it gets old. > > > > Suggestion: MLO should offer drag&drop - which creates a single task for > each message, or drag&shift/drop - which creates a single task combining > multiple messages. > > > > What do you think? > > -Dwight > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/700f2cab-c416-41ba-8807-cd38b21294bc%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/700f2cab-c416-41ba-8807-cd38b21294bc%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/007b01d00550%24429a10a0%24c7ce31e0%24%40dwightarthur.us > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/007b01d00550%24429a10a0%24c7ce31e0%24%40dwightarthur.us?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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