Are you talking about Exchange/Outlook messages? If so, you can simply add
a reference to Outlook and then check the folders through VBA.

I can give more details if you want and provide sample code, assuming I'm
understanding your problem correctly.


"T. Valko" wrote in message
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Anyone have any ideas on this...

I want to come up with a UDF that returns the number of messages in an
email "folder".

Just some cursory looking around, the problem I see:

The messages aren't stored in a folder but rather in a *.dbx database
file (ie: inbox.dbx). It doesn't look like it's be possible to count the
messages within this *.dbx file. So, what other methods are there to do
this?

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP