I created my own macro which adds the project to the beginning of the task name, so you can sort by project. I use * as the delimiter since Outlook, Pocket Informant and Blackberry all sort * before alpha characters. The [ character is sorted after alpha characters on Blackberry.

Here is the macro ( worked in OL2000 and now in OL2003 ). I also added a button to the toolbar, but I don't remember how.

Create a new task, select a project and then run Macro. It inserts *Projectname* at the beginning of the task subject. If you create the subject name first, you must Save the task before running macro. If not, the *Projectname* will replace the not-yet-saved subject.

If you open an existing task, you can just run Macro, and it will insert *Projectname* in front of subject.

NOTE there is no linebreak in any of these lines.


Sub Proj()

Set myOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myItem = myOlApp.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
myItem.Subject = "*" & myItem.UserProperties("Project") & "* " & myItem.Subject

End Sub