You can wrap the line of code that fails into TRY...CATCH.

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>Is there any way to determine whether the outlook on a machine is configured or not? The machine where i want to check this does not have VFP installed..!!
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>I am creating an outlook application object by olk = CREATEOBJECT("Outlook.application"). when i check the current username, i get an error because outlook is not configured on that machine.