>>>>>Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>>Big problem this morning. executing this line of code gets me in an endless loop.
>>>>>Lines of code look like this
>>>>>
>>>>>Try
>>>>>loOutlookObject = CREATEOBJECT ("Outlook.Application") * Execution of this line
>>>>>.
>>>>>catch
>>>>
>>>>Can you start Outlook manually? If you start it first, does this line still fail?
>>>
>>>Ditched Outlook looong ago, so cannot test - does Outlook support multiple instances ?
>>>GetObject() IAC perhaps better to try first if instance is already alive...
>>
>>Outlook's funny that way. One instance and CreateObject() will grab it, if it's already running.
>>
>Should have guessed at MS curiosity and not that you had mistyped...
>Probably a side effect of forcing single instance - any documentation from MS as to source and method ?

I don't remember. I learned all this about Outlook writing the Automation book and that's more than 20 years ago, so...

Tamar