If you have a large number of tasks to do then you would naturally try and prioritise them so that the most important ones get your attention first. You can assign a priority to any task in the list. A supervisor may define up to 5 levels of task priority and may specify the default priority level for new tasks. The standard OfficeTalk configuration provides three levels of task priority named: 'High', 'Medium' and 'Low'. The default priority is 'Medium'.
You can change the priority of a task in the following way:
Bring up the Task property sheet by double clicking on the task.
Select the required priority from the Priority drop down list. Press OK to save your changes.
Tip: To quickly change the task priority, keep the Ctrl key pressed and click the left mouse button on the priority marker. The priority of the task will increase each time you click on the marker. If the task priority is already 1 then clicking on the priority marker will change the priority to 5.
Once each task has been assigned the appropriate priority, you may wish to sort the task list by priority such that the highest priority tasks are shown at the top of the list. You can do this by clicking the left mouse button on the priority column header.
Alternatively, you may wish to show only tasks with a certain priority. For example, you can filter the task list to show only priority 1 tasks in the following way:
Locate a priority 1 task in the task list. Click the right mouse button on the priority 1 marker. The context menu will be displayed.
Select Filter by 'high'. Only priority 1 tasks will be shown in the task list.
To remove the filter, click the right mouse button anywhere in the list and select Disable Filter from the context menu.