Tracking status of other people's outlook tasks

Hi. I am new to this forum so I'll try to be as complete, but as concise as possible.

I use Outlook 2003 Standard Edition. I wish to be able to create a task and assign it to a person, but be informed of their progress. For example: I wish to assign a task to the secretary to look up that one document on the server, and reformat it to my liking. I want to send the task to her, but when she clicks "Task Complete," I would like it to send me an email, which would then automatically update my tasks, so that it shows that she has completed it, on my task list. This is possible and I have found how to do it using a built in feature.

Here is where my problem begins. I need to assign it to her, but also have my colleagues updated as to the status of the task. As far as I can tell, I have to assign the task to the secretary as well as my colleagues. This makes no sense though. I can't seem to find any sort of "carbon copy" option in the "New Task Request" dialog.

Is there any way to make it so that I can 1) assign it to only the secretary, 2) have it alert my colleagues of the task being assigned, 3) when the secretary completes the task, have it update both me and my colleagues?

 

Yes. It would be EASIER, but we use the Task feature of outlook heavily. It would be MUCH more convenient to simply continue the use of this feature. Is there any way to do this?

 

You agree the suggested solution "would be EASIER" but want a more convenient solution??? Can I work for you please, I'll give you many "convenient" solutions and ???? the work force they don't matter anyway, even if they make your job "EASIER ".

 

I'm sorry, but I don't understand the entirety of your response, sir. I'm still looking for a solution to this. It seems that if there was some way to cc my colleagues, this matter could easily be resolved. Still no solutions anyone?