Outlook 2000 VBA Programmers Reference Author:Dwayne Gifford Outlook 2000 is an important part of the Office 2000 program suite, and will be available in the Premium, Professional, Standard and Small Business editions of Office 2000. At present, most people use Outlook for sending and receiving emails and little else, However, Outlook 2000 is set to become a very powerful organizational tool. Outlook 2000... more » now hosts VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and hence there is a strong emphasis on between-application automation. Using VBA, the user can program his or her own programs in what is essentially a subset of the Visual Basic programming languages. This is neat because it allows you to automate a lot of mailing and calendaring tasks that would otherwise take up a lot of time - one press of a button could take names from an Access database, write a letter in Word addressed to each individual, and then email all the letters at once.« less