Maybe I'm going crazy. I was positive that in the past I was able to
place a shortcut to a Word document in an Outlook task by dragging the
document from an Explorer window using the right mouse button onto the
open task.

If I do that to the desktop, I get a prompt asking me if I want to
move, copy, or create a shortcut.

I thought it used to work like that into a task as well.

Today, when I tried it, I got no prompt and the document was copied to
a temporary location (\Temporary Internet Files\OLK19). It isn't a
shortcut, but a copy of the document, which is worse than useless.

I also tried creating a shortcut on the desktop and then moving that
to the task. This created an icon in the task with the label
name.doc.lnk. When I try to open the document, I get an error message
about dangerous files and it will not open it.

All I want it a shortcut in the task to the document so that I can
double click on it when I open the task.

What am I doing wrong?

Unless I'm crazy, this used to work.

Thanks

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