Garry

Thanks for the ideas. The intention is to use a script to paste "current time" into a start time field. At the end of the time interval the new current time is pasted into an end time field. A calculation field subtracts start from end giving elapsed time. The goal was to use repeating fields so a total of elapsed times could be extracted with a total of repeating field. Hope that makes my intentions clear

This has got me beat and I feel I have overlooked something obvious. I wish to paste the result of a calculation in the next available repetition in a repeating field (actually a subtraction of two paste(current time) fields) for a particular record. It was then intended to have a running total field as well which would show the total time. Any suggestion gratefully received. Garry

I can't be too helpful on this as Outlook has limited Applescripting but you can script a button to copy the address, send an Apple event to open Outlook and create a new email. You will then have to click in the address field before pasting. You can do this properly with some mail programmes (like Emailer) and will post information into several fileds at once. Unfortunately MS is not keen on this Internation Standard either. Of course I just realised that you may not be a Mac user, in which case there may be an easier solution.