>Hi All;
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>I've run into a nasty intermittent Word automation issue involving a call to CreateObject("Word.Application"). Most of the time it works perfectly, but on three new Dell machines with Office 2003 Small Business edition, it fails with an OLE error 429. 8007007e. After looking this up in various tech areas it appears the solution is to call CreateObject with an optional second parameter of "localhost" - at least in VB. Does anyone know what I would need to do in VFP? Anyone bumped into this one yet?
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>Any pointers appreciated - thanks!


I ran into the same issues about a week ago. Using CreageObjectEx was one solution but that would have required me to change my software, recompile and distribute. I found that there seemed to be and entry in the registry that was pointing to Norton for a macro scan or something (can't quite remember). The information is located under the following registry key.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}

The machine did not have Norton installed so I removed the key. Everything works just fine now. Let me know if this helps.

Scott