How to Hide Completed Tasks in Outlook

Keep completed tasks safely tucked away with these methods

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Done with your to-do list? No need to have them lingering around. In this article, you will learn how to hide completed tasks in Outlook.

This will allow you to be more productive and move on to other active tasks that need your attention. So, here’s how you go about it.

What happens to completed tasks in Outlook?

When you complete a task in Outlook, it is moved from your Tasks folder to the Completed Items folder. The only problem is that it only moves from one folder to another. The completed folder does not remain hidden.

Having these tasks displayed every timeOutlook opens on startupcan become annoying to many.

This is why you may need to hide these tasks from the main task view. The main benefits of decluttering your task view include:

Now that you know the pros of hiding tasks in Outlook, here are some Outlook task management tips.

How do I automatically hide completed tasks in Outlook?

How do I archive completed tasks in Outlook?

Hopefully, as you auto-hide completed tasks, this will help you eliminate clutter from your tasks list and make the daily tasks easier to track.

All of the changes will be taking place behind the scenes, and it will be seamless for you without worrying about completed tasks.

With that out of the way, we’d like to direct your attention to another related issue. You may find that yourOutlook app is not opening in Windows 11at times. If this is the case, check out our detailed article on how to address this problem.

Having shown you two different methods for hiding completed tasks in Outlook, you should have a pretty good idea of which will work best for you. Which method do you prefer? Let us know in the comments section below.

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How to Hide Completed Tasks in Outlook

What happens to completed tasks in Outlook?

How do I automatically hide completed tasks in Outlook?

How do I archive completed tasks in Outlook?