The VBA project status is in the registry in HKLM, it's a COM addin registered under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\Microsoft.VbaAddinForOutlook.1. If LoadBehavior is set to 9 then VBA is loaded and enabled. The various combinations of settings at HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Security\ make up the various macro settings. You can use a tool such as RegMon to find how those values change as you change the various macro related settings. The "12.0" is for Outlook 2007, adjust that for your own version, for example "11.0" for Outlook 2003. "Peter Kinsman" <peter@seguecomputing.co.uk> wrote in message news:uYUS5vvKKHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...