>Ed
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>> Try looking in the registry; if it's installed, there will be a registry
>key for the ProgID Outlook.Application >under
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Outlook.Application; this will point at a CLSID;
>locate the registry key >HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\the CLSID you found
>under the ProgID; it will have a LocalServer32 >subkey; the default
>value is the actual full path to start Outlook.
>>
>
>Thanks for the info - this seems to work - presumably I can use this method
>for all Windows 32-bit O/S ie 2000, NT, 98 and 95 ?
>

Yes.