>thanks for the info. i need to do something like this -- now all i have to do is find our office97 cd....
>

No problem and good luck with the Outlook stuff. Be aware that Outlook VB Scripting Edition is really a lightweight version of VB Script and is lacking a lot of power in some areas. In the basic version there's no native debug capability ( that makes it really fun sometimes :-) ) and various functions, etc. are not available. There are some upgrades and patches at MS that help some of the issues.

Bill