Display preferences

You can change how Tasklist displays your task list from the View tab in the ribbon bar:

You can see your completed tasks by pressing the Completed tasks button.  Checking Hide completed tasks will hide today's completed tasks.  See the topic Complete and reopen tasks for more detail on completing tasks and reopening completed tasks.

You can expand and collapse the entire tree view or the selected node by clicking the Expand and Collapse buttons.

Checking Show tree lines will show or hide the tree lines connecting tasks to their parents.

The app colors your tasks depending on their due date.  For more detail on setting a due date, see the topic Setting task properties.  You can turn this feature on and off by checking the Color by due date checkbox.

Checking Fade inactive tasks will show inactive tasks in faded font.  Checking Hide inactive tasks will hide inactive tasks inyour task list.  For more detail on inactive tasks, see the topic Inactive tasks.

Checking Bold root tasks will show root tasks in bold font.