Correction:

instead of

WAIT WINDOW TYPE('oOutlook.Name')+'-'+oOutlook.Name   - O-Outlook

this line should read:

WAIT WINDOW TYPE('oOutlook.Name')+'-'+oOutlook.Name   - C-Outlook
                                                        ^

>After this line:
>
>oOutlook = CREATEOBJECT("Outlook.Application")),
>
>I'm getting
>
>

>WAIT WINDOW VARTYPE(oOutlook)                         - O
>WAIT WINDOW TYPE('oOutlook.Name')+'-'+oOutlook.Name   - O-Outlook
>

>
>Like I said, if Outlook was running already, everything's fine. Everything's happening on my machine, where I'm Administrator.
>
>Maybe some security setting in Exchange/Outlook?
>
>There is an Exchange server in the domain, but mail client is Outlook2000.
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>(My machine is Win2000 SP2,VFP7,Outlook2000)
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>Sasha
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>
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>>>I'm creating an Outlook object (oOutlook = CREATEOBJECT("Outlook.Application")) and immediately after a message object (oMessage=oOutlook.CreateItem(0)).
>>>
>>>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'.
>>>
>>>If Outlook is running beforehand, everything's perfect.
>>>
>>>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.