>I'm creating an Outlook object (oOutlook = CREATEOBJECT("Outlook.Application")) and immediately after a message object (oMessage=oOutlook.CreateItem(0)).
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>If Outlook isn't running before these two statements, an error pops up: #1429 on *second* line with message:
>'OLE IDispatch exception code 61704 from Microsoft Outlook: Internal application error'.
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>If Outlook is running beforehand, everything's perfect.
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>I tried with putting a 5 and 10 seconds pause in between these two statements to no avail.
>
>Have anybody seen this?

DO you test to make sure the CreateObject worked? Do you use vartype() to check the oOutlook object? You could also use type() to check a property of the object (like Name) to make sure it is of type character.

It sounds like Outlook isn't being instantiated at all.