Check to see if Outlook is open

[cawillwe]

I need to be able to check to see if Outlook is open, and then if it isn't open it. I need to actually open the program, not just an instance of the class (unless I'm issing something here). Any ideas on how that can be done?

 

[BukHix]

This should get you started:

API: Find out if an application is currently running