>Thanks so much. You have been extremely helpful to me. My last (I think) question now is: How do I reference a different email account than the one associated with my login, but one that I have access to. I normally open this folder by clicking in Outlook on File, Open, New User's Folder. TIA. Shuli

I haven't done this before, but try logging off and on to the other user's with the namespace Logoff / Logon methods:

olNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
olNameSpace.Logon("myProfile", "myPassword", .t., .t.)

On my previous response I forgot to add that the object model (properties/methods) is in vbaoutl.hlp for OL9x and in vbaoutl9.chm for OL2000.