You need to find out the registry key that gets created when the control is registered and check for it.

>I'm using an OLE control on a form that some users will have and some won't. Opening the form when you don't have the control gives the "OLE error code 0x---- not found".
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>So I figure if they don't have the object, I can do something like this for the OLE control:
>
>

>PROCEDURE INIT
>If IDontHaveTheControl
>    return .f.
>endif
>ENDPROC
>

>
>That still gets an error.
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>So I tried, ON ERROR Do l_NoErrorMsg before calling the form. Still get the error message though.
>
>Is there anyway to trap that error so that the user won't see it?