Cool....definitely slipstick is the place to go when you need Outlook stuff...everyone in this group should bookmark them. To use them in your rule....it's in the third part of the rules wizard, where you tell Outlook what to do with the mail, there's an option in the list that says to "apply a custom action"...when you choose that, in the bottom window click on the underlined words "custom action"...then you will have a dropdown box to choose the custom action...just select the one you installed. Have fun :-) Linda F. Johnson, M.A., MOS Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com Free e-Books, Newsletter, and tutorials -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Rubinfeld Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 1:51 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Outlook 2000 rules question Linda, Thanks for the heads up on that website. They had two programs which installed the mark as read custom action in Outlook. They're called MarkRead and AutoRead. While I need to do some investigating on how to use either of them in my rule set, they do appear to do exactly what I want. Thanks again, Mike ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************