Yep, that also does it. Thanks!

For anyone lurking, it is worth noting that the syntax of my .Find statement gets garbled when posted as HTML. It's one of those cases where it's great to have all 3 ways in VFP to enclose a string. However, the outer single quotes shown in this HTML posting should be changed to double quotes if you want to use something like this.

 oTask = oFolder.Items.Find( "[Subject]='Find Me'" )

>Kelly,
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>The '=' prefix shoul eliminate the error.

  = ot.Delete()

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