The collection may be new, but the Explorer objects have been around since at least Outlook97, as evidenced by this cut and paste from the Office97 HTML Help file:

"In the Outlook object model, the Application object contains the NameSpace object, which contains MAPIFolder objects that represent all the available folders in a given data source (for example, a MAPI message store). The MAPIFolder objects contain objects that represent all the Outlook items in the data source, and each item contains some useful programmable objects for controlling that item. In addition, there's an Explorer object associated with each folder and an Inspector object associated with each item."




>>I'm in the bad habit today of not posting everything in the first post (lol).
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>>FYI, I am using a variation of that code I posted in a production system that has Office97 and Outlook98 installed. If it didn't work, I'd have had some 'splainin to do.
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>That's odd that the technical article on what's new in Outlook 2000 lists the Explorers collection as being new. Of course, it may be just referring to the fact that all explorers are now available.