>When you install Office, under the Outlook selecton, under the "help" checkbox, make sure you select VBA for Outlook help which won't install otherwise, even if you otherwise do a "Complete" install.
>Therein lies a pretty good description of the Outlook object model.
>Dealing with Outlook ain't always easy, though I believe the tasks are relatively unencumbered.

Thanks for the info. Looking at help section in Outlook98 I get the impression you can use the object almost in the same way as Word. I admit I didn,t look to carefully but I could not find any of "retrieving" entries in the Task database but only ways of creating new ones.

Rgds
Petras