Larry Miller posted this link earlier. It's a good read with examples specific to your issue.
See Calvin Hsia's artcle:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnfoxgen7/html/vfpandcom.asp for an example of using VFP with Excel.



>Hello all,
>
>I'm having a problem when trying to bind events with Outlook and error "Type
>Library Outlook.Application not found" appears. I found previously that
>Norton AV 2002 script blocking feature caused this error but this is a
>different machine not running NAV. The machine is running XP Pro SP1 and Office XP with Virusscan. (I know - I did try to disable virus scan but to no avail!!
>
>Has anyone encountered this problem??? If so do you have a workaround.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Paul.