Hi...

I am getting nowhere fast on this.

I want to create a script that executes at a specific time
each night that tells Outlook to close/quit. Then I want
to tell it to start every morning at a specific time.

How should I tackle this? I only have the office
application. I don't have developer tools. I assume that I
could create a script that runs inside Outlook that tells
it to quit at a certain time, but how do I get it to
launch every morning?

Jake

Jake

Is this for a stand-alone situation or with an MS Exchange at the back
end?

If the latter then how are you going to do this with the user logged off?  
  Also, the security implications of all this are bewildering.  May I ask
why you want to do this?

Malc
  www.dragondrop.com

The easiest way to do the first part of this is not to use
a script or VBA at all.  Just set up a tasks under
Scheduled Tasks that launches Outlook.exe.  Scheduled
Tasks can be found in the left pane of Windows Explorer
under My Computer in Windows 98, or under Control Panel in
Windows 2000.  I don't have a Windows XP machine handy, so
I don't know where it is in Windows XP.  The wizard
launched by Add Scheduled Task is pretty much self-
explanatory, but in Windows 2000, you do need to reenter
the username and password EVERY TIME you modify the task.  
Once you are in Outlook, you can probably set up an
appointment that runs a VBA macro that closes Outlook, but
that's more complicated than I can figure out quickly.