>I have seen messages about this before, but can't find them. On some machines lo = Createobject('outlook.application') fails, even though Outlook 2010 is installed. Any tips?

Does this machine use Office 2010 64 bit?

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/visualfoxprogeneral/thread/3d42a63d-1d38-4c36-b503-399742473079

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/visualfoxprogeneral/thread/ea1123a8-e5ea-4be7-b2da-4277477fc4e4