Thanks, John! I appreciate the nudge in the right direction.

How can I go about creating a list of all users in the Address Book?

-- Gerry

>Hi Gerry,
>
>This is code I use to validate a name. If it can find the name, it pops up the Properties inspector for that contact. If not, it pops up the explorer showing all entries.
>
>The downside is that it has to exactly match....Outlook does not have a very good way to do fuzzy matching.
>

>oOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")	&& Open Outlook
>oOlNS  = oOlApp.GetNameSpace("MAPI")	  && Set name space
>oOlC   = oOlNS.GetDefaultFolder(10)	&& 10 = Default contacts folder
>
>cFind="John Smith"
>oItem=olC.Items.Find('[FullName] = "&cFind"')
>IF !ISNULL(oItem)
>   oItem.GetInspector
>   oItem.Display
>ELSE
>   oExplorer=olC.GetExplorer
>   oExplorer.Display
>ENDIF
>

>
>>Thanks to all who have given code snippets for sending email from within VFP. I've got that working fine in my application.
>>
>>HOWEVER, I'd like to validate the email address entered, or give the user a combo box picklist. How do I access the Outlook Address Book in detail?
>>
>>Please don't ask me to look at win32api.hlp, unless it's on the web somewhere. It didn't get installed with VFP 6.0a.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>- Gerry