Strange - is there  no way to forward your emails to a particular MLO email 
address?

J

On Friday, November 21, 2014 9:15:24 PM UTC, MkaGGL wrote:
>
> 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] 
> <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:> [mailto:
>> [email protected] <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *Michael G.
>> *Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:24 PM
>> *To:* [email protected] <javascript:>
>> *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
>>
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