You can use the MAPIFolder.Items.Find method to look for an item that matches your specific criteria. (You have to decide what constitutes a match. Have you thought about maintaining a unique ID in the Outlook tasks that match an ID in your Access table?) See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/finddate.htm for tips on searching on date fields.

You don't need to display and close the newly created items. Just use Save.

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"Grant Bush" Grant wrote in message ...
I've got some vba code setup to import tasks from an access table upon
outlook starting, but I need to add code to compare the task items to make
sure that they aren't duplicated. Below is the code that I have. I would
appreciate any help offerred and if there is a better code that should be
used, let me know.

thanks.

Grant Bush

Private Sub Application_Startup(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)

Dim olns As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim oltaskfolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder

Dim oltaskitem As Outlook.TaskItem

Dim objConn As ADODB.Connection
Dim objrst As ADODB.Recordset
Dim objfld As ADODB.field
Dim strsql As String

Set olns = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set oltasksfolder = olns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderTasks)

Set objConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objrst = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")

strsql = "SELECT * From Gbdd;"

objConn.provider = "Microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0"
objConn.Open "I:\bush\rockford ehs.mdb"

objrst.Open strsql, objConn, adopenforwardonly, adlockoptimistic

objrst.movefirst

While Not objrst.EOF
Set oltaskitem = oltasksfolder.Items.Add("IPM.task")
oltaskitem.Display
oltaskitem.Subject = objrst.Fields("Description")
oltaskitem.DueDate = objrst.Fields("compliance due date")
oltaskitem.ReminderTime = objrst.Fields("reminder date")
' oltaskitem.Notes = objrst.Fields("plant affected")
' oltaskitem.Status = objrst.Fields("status")
objrst.movenext
oltaskitem.Close olSave
Wend

objrst.Close
objConn.Close

Set objrst = Nothing
Set objConn = Nothing
Set olctitem = Nothing
Set objprospectfolder = Nothing
Set objctfolder = Nothing
Set objns = Nothing



End Sub