Have you looked at the Application.MAPILogonComplete event?

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"Stuart Parker" wrote in message
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Hi,

So when outlook starts up, it loads my addin, and my addin's startup runs.
In the meantime outlook is loading other addins, and trying to connect to
exchange, blah blah.

It there any way to tell when outlook has finished doing all this, and is
fully initialized? an event perhaps? I would like my addin to wait and not
do anything until outlook has fully loaded and done all it's stuff.

Cheers