Thanks Tamar, who would have known to look at a site named 'slipstick'?
I just brought up the page and will see what I can find over there. If
I do find a solution, I will post it back over here for everyone's benefit...

Tom

>>Here are the steps I use to manually achive my goal in Outlook 2000:
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>>1. Right mouse click on 'Personal Folders'
>>2. Select properties for 'Personal Folders'
>>3. Click on the 'Advanced' button
>>4. Click on 'Compact Now'
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>>What I what is a way to do the same using VFP to control the process. Unfortunately there is not a macro recorder for Outlook.
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>I just spent some time with the Outlook VBA Help and I don't see any good candidates for this. You might try www.slipstick.com and see if she has anything on this.
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>Tamar