### Send Updated Status by Using Microsoft Outlook

You can use Microsoft Outlook to accept TeamAssign messages, maintain a task list, and send updated task information to the workgroup manager.

To send an updated status about your Microsoft Outlook tasks to your workgroup manager

1. Open Microsoft Outlook.
2. On the Outlook bar, click Tasks.
3. On the Tasks menu, click New TeamStatus Report.
4. Select each project that contains tasks for which you want to send an updated status.
5. To specify the time period covered by your status report, enter dates in the From and To fields.
6. In the Report actual work box, click the timescale by which the new TeamStatus report will display tasks.
7. To display overtime work in the new TeamStatus report, click Track overtime work.
8. Click OK.
   A message is created for each project you selected in step 4.
9. On the Outlook bar, click Inbox, click New TeamStatus Report, and then click Reply.
10. Click Send.

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