Is there any way to shoot the tasks to a word processor? If not, when printing tasks, is there any way to include the task description? When I tried printing the tasks to html, all that appeared was the task name, which for my purposes isn't very useful. When I go to a library or archives (no, everything isn't on the Internet), I need to have the more detailed information that I put in the description, not just the more cursory task name. If this is not possible, I'd like to put in a request that this be added in a future update.
You can go to "File |
You can go to "File | Report" and select a report template to print the tasks.
Unfortunately, that doesn't
Unfortunately, that doesn't work very well at all for my purposes. First, there seems to be no way to print a subset of tasks, selected either by highlighting them or by filtering them. Second, I want to print the task and the description. The descriptions are of different lengths- some one line, some ten lines. In order to get the 10-line descriptions to print, I have to create a block of space large enough for ten lines to print. But then the 1-line descriptions have 9 lines of space after them. And you can't send the report to a word processor to be edited; it can only be printed.
If this is the only way to get task descriptions to print, I may as well not bother entering tasks anymore. Again, I would strongly encourage you to consider adding the option to send tasks to a word processor.
In the next patch release
In the next patch release (8.04), all fields (including Description) will be included in the print out. Thanks, Paul