Outlook provides a File | Import and Export command for importing from Excel.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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>I have created an excel spread sheet that describes the task /start date/end
> date. I would like to have the decribtion written into the start day thru the
> end date with some highlite bar showing the duration