Yes.  You can drag pretty well anything anywhere in Outlook.  What you're
suggesting will create a Task Assigned to that Contact.

If that's not what you want, how about you tell us what you are trying to
achieve and your version of Outlook.

Judy Gleeson  - MVP Outlook
Acorn Training and Consulting
Canberra, Australia

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In Outlook 2002 (XP), you can drag and drop:
1. a Contact item into the contacts field in a Task item
2. any text (including a phone number) from a Contact item into a text
field in a Task item.

I was able to demonstrate this to myself by trying it.  Have you been
unable to do so ?