It's not necessary for Notes to export anything. It's the VB app that needs to connect to the server. The Domino server is constantly online just waits and listen. The Client (VB app) have to do a dial-up to the network and locate the Domino server. I am considering ODBC but not sure of how VB interacts with that. Lotus doesn't store data in table form, it stores them in forms. That's the problem...