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Group By Views don’t work in To-Do List

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Last reviewed on February 12, 2019     1 Comment

Applies to: Outlook (classic), Outlook 365 (Win)

The January 2019 update contains a bug affecting To-Do List views. If you try to group by two fields, Outlook will tell you there is nothing to display. Only the To-Do List and To-Do bar are affected by this bug.
to-do list bug
The workarounds:

  • Group by one field and sort by the other field (not all fields support Sort)
    group then sort
  • Rollback one build

Rollback

First, turn off updates and create an appointment on your calendar to turn updates back on in about a month.

  1. Type cmd on the start menu, right click on the Command Prompt, choose Run as Administrator
  2. Copy and paste this line in the command prompt. This command takes you back to the Jan 14 2019 build.
    "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\officec2rclient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.11126.20266
    Command to rollback office 354

If you want to go back to an earlier build, the full list of build numbers are here Release notes for Monthly Channel releases in 2019

More Information

Uninstall Updates in Office 'Click to Run'

Group By Views don’t work in To-Do List was last modified: February 12th, 2019 by Diane Poremsky

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About Diane Poremsky

A Microsoft Outlook Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1999, Diane is the author of several books, including Outlook 2013 Absolute Beginners Book. She also created video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook. You can find her helping people online in Outlook Forums as well as in the Microsoft Answers and TechNet forums.

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Malcolm
April 16, 2020 7:11 am

I've just updated to MS365 and am struggling through the differences. Todays is task categories. Previously I grouped my tasks into "Now", "Office", "Rainy Day" and a couple of other categories. On updating to 365, these are all there with their due tasks, but I can't put a new task into these categories; my categories don't show under the Categorize button. If I open an existing task, I can see its original category, plus all the new coloured ones I don't want.
Can you help me stick with my categories and add new tasks to them please?
Many thanks
Malcolm

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