>Unfortunately, I have to have Notes installed for the other apps we have to use here. But if I ever get Outlook working that will be 95% of the reason I have to use Notes. Our standard desktop has Lotus Millennium [123, Approach, etc] all installed. We use Ghost to dupe all our machines. Needless to say, not mine. I roll my own. No other Lotus prods on my PC.

Sounds like our place (can you believe ghosted Win95 boxes w/Novell?). My distaste goes back awhile. First, it was that AmiPro (back in Win 3.1) could produce an RTF file that could be used to build a help file. Then it was a project that had to manage a bunch of 1-2-3 spreadsheets and AmiPro documents. We had to do it through DDE to execute macro commands. Unfortunately, the two don't (or didn't share the same macro language). I kept railing about having to learn two different macro languages in order to get the thing to work. Next, it was the release of FartSuite '97. I had some FPW stuff that pulled cross-tables in 1-2-3 spreadsheets into tables. Whoops, no more support for DDE in that version. It also broke some very complicated macros that were and are in some very heavily used spreadsheets. So many folks still have both Release 5 and 97 on the same box.

Right now there's talk of switching to Office. I'm in the middle of converting some of the applications that no longer worked due to the lack of DDE in Lotus stuff into VFP. Since we're considering Office, I've got to write this stuff so that it'll work with either product. A real PITA, especially if you've ever looked at the documentation for the Automation stuff from Lotus. Some of the worst I've ever seen. grrrr