Thanks for the speedy and informative response.

>No. Outlook by self is quite complex application that can use many resources. >Some of them might cause slow downs. For example, when Personal Folders >located somewhere in the network, Outlook might work slowly when closed. In my >machine woithout any local network connections (just a modem connection to >mail host) Outlook works very quickly. Outlook option to clean up deleted >items .when closed might slow down Outlook too when it closed.

My Outlook is setup to use Exchange Mailboxes as the default - so this may be making it slower than if using personal folders?

>You can run Outlook as separate application (for example, using ShellExecute >API function call - you can find a lot of articles here at UT). Than >CreateObject for Outlook will not run another instance of Outlook, but just >will use existing one. Releasing of such reference will not close Outlook. >this with Outlook 2000 only.

I'll check this out

Thanks again

Anna