Thank you Dwight. I'm not sure what the reason was, but it seems to have 
self-rectified. However, knowing that I can work out what's going on if it 
happens again is a big help.

Thank you.

On Tuesday, 6 June 2017 17:13:31 UTC+1, Dwight wrote:
>
> Hi, Stephen
> If the tasks are black rather than green in your task list this means that 
> they are currently inactive. There are at least seven different things that 
> can make a task inactive. I could go through a whole tutorial here on 
> criteria for designating a task "active" but that would probably just 
> confuse you. So instead, why don't you just ask your tasks to tell you why 
> they are not active?
> 1. Pick a task that is black but that you think should definitely be active
> 2. Click on the task so that it gets a light blue background, meaning that 
> it is the currently selected task
> 3. Find the Task Properties sidebar on the right side of the screen. The 
> title bar at the top should show the name of your selected task
> 4. within the sidebar, find the section headings, which have a gray 
> background. Scroll down until you find a section header saying "Task 
> Statistics"
> 5. In the task statistics section look for "Action". This will tell you 
> whether the task is active or not and if it is inactive it will tell you 
> why. 
>
> Assuming that your tasks actually are inactive, when you see the reason 
> you may know right away what to do. If not, check several other tasks and 
> see what reasons are given for their inactive status. If you don't 
> understand the reason or you don't know how to fix it, write back. Be sure 
> to copy the reason for inactive status carefully, no typos!
> -Dwight
>
> On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 7:01:30 AM UTC-4, Stephen Gadd wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is my first day with MLO. I appear to have switched off MLO's 
>> flagging of the Next Actions. Whereas before, active tasks would turn green 
>> and be viewable under the To Do/Active Actions view, they are all now 
>> either black (tasks) or blue (projects) with my To Do/Active Actions view 
>> completely empty. Not sure what I have done!
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>

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