Does anyone know how I can use the MSCOMM32.OCX to dial phone numbers?

Elyse

>>I want to be able to dial phone numbers from my VFP5 application. Can this (and should this) be done using Outlook and if so, how?
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>>Thanks
>>Elyse
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>Elyse,
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>I don't have any experience with the MSCOMM32.OCX control, but I believe you can use that to dial phone numbers.
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>As for Outlook, I have a friend who says it should be named "Look Out!!". While what I'm about to write didn't hapen with VFP (it was in Excel), it may apply. Here's the story:
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>There was an Excel spreadsheet which was being used to track investmets which had some rather complex financial macros. Over time, the macros got slower, and slower, and slower. After a lot of work, my friend discovered that Outlook was logging every action that was happening on the machine and storing it in a log file, which by this time was huge. Here's the really insidious part: this is its default behavior. Additionally, this, apparently, isn't well documented. So regarding Outlook, I think my friend's right: Look Out!
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>HTH,
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>George