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#CREATING FOLDERS FOR OUTLOOK MAC FOR MAC#
#CREATING FOLDERS FOR OUTLOOK MAC MAC OS X#

I’ve been meaning to add this information for a while. You may have to restart Outlook first.įrom now on the “Create Task from Message” command should be visible in the AppleScript menu within Outlook. Now repeat step 2 above and it should now work.Drag the resulting file (Create Task from Message.scptd) from the downloads folder into the Outlook scripts folder that you opened in step 4.Go to this url and it will automatically download a zipped bundle file into your downloads folder:.Drag that Finder window to the side of your Mac screen you’ll need it in a minute. A folder will open named Outlook (that is likely empty).

At the top of the menu above, click on Open Scripts Folder, and from its submenu click on Open Outlook Scripts Folder.

If you see that script there, great, just use it.

Look at the bottom of the menu list for the Create Task from Message:

Open Outlook and, with a message selected, click the Scripts menu (see the blue scroll button in the top-left of image below).

#CREATING FOLDERS FOR OUTLOOK MAC MAC OS X#

You may have to activate the Scripts menu on Mac OS X these days it is usually not active by default.

#CREATING FOLDERS FOR OUTLOOK MAC FOR MAC#

Here are the steps I used to install and use this script with Outlook for Mac (2016), and with the latest Mac OS X Sierra. I can’t guarantee it will continue to work with future updates, but let’s cross our fingers. As of this writing (January 26, 2017), with the latest version of Outlook for Mac (2016) installed, and with the latest Mac OS X Sierra installed, I have found that once you install the script, it seems to be working. Scroll down to the older comments on this article to see some of that history.īut good news. Since then, reports have come in that it sometimes works but usually does not. Then later, even if you did that, when Mac OS X was updated, the script stopped working. Then later it did not come by default and you had to download it and install it-and it would work if you did. Here’s the history: The script came delivered with most of the original Outlook for Mac 2011 installs, back in 2010. The AppleScript script that converts e-mails to tasks (Create Task from Message) has had a long and rocky history, but there is a good ending.