Hi John,

>You and Tamar were on the right track: The reason that your code acted so flaky was that Outlook couldn't tell where to put the Task when it was not explicitly open. This is why you need the Namespace and the default MAPI folders to automate Tasks (and other stuff too). Try the code below (I modified your code):

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Thanks for your input - I've copied the new code to a text file for later perusal.

However, now I'm really confused. My previous code to Tamar [ with .close{olSave) ] worked fine and saved each task added to Outlook with no problems.

Also, Microsoft's own examples [ such as Knowledge Base article Q162371 - Using Automation to Add a Task/Reminder to MS Outlook, which uses MS Access ] do not use the Namespace and default MAPI folders.

MSFT only seen to use these when retrieving data from Outlook.

Obviously, my concern is that I write something which works in one version of Outlook, but not in other versions.

Best.

Matt.