See Thread #624404 for a relevant discussion.

>Hi all,
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>can someone explain this to me?
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>I develop in a Win XP Pro box with VFP 7.0 SP1, automating Word 2002. When I compile my app and go to my customer's site, with Win98 SE and Word 2000 installed, I star it normally, but at the execution of the line:
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>oWord = CREATEOBJECT( "Word.Application" )
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>this error comes out:
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>"OLE error code 0x8001010a: message filter indicated that the application is busy"
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>The same thing appears in another PC he owns with Word 97 installed. Word is working fine by itself in both PC.
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>What could be the reason?
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>TIA
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>Iames