Hi michael.divirgilio ,

If you haven't done so already, I'd recommend checking out the keyboard shortcuts -- this is the fastest way to edit task properties.

Once you've added a task, you can press 'd' to jump to the due date field.

Hope this helps!

When you have added a task, it's selected, just enter the date etc at right.

Thanks Emily and Rajjan. That helps but the 'trouble' I was trying to describe is that I actually have to finish creating the task and then find it in my list of tasks (which with more than 15 tasks requires me to scroll down the page to find it) and then click on the task with my mouse so that I can then do as you suggest and select 'd' to enter the date. Am I missing something?

I suspect that your newly added task is selected after you add it even if it's off-screen. Looking in the box at right, you should see the task name.
It works that way on my PC.

Excellent. I figured it out. Thanks Raggan!