I get an error:  ...can't open a mail session...
Access 97, Outlook Express, works on several machines, but not on this one
particular laptop.
Access reference to Outlook is specified.
Outlook Express works,
Can send from Word, but not from Access.

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John Hazen
Hazen & Associates
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John Hazen
Hazen & Associates

Outlook and Outlook Express are completely different programs, sort of
like Jave and JaveScript.

Perhaps it was just an oversight in your typing, but if Access has a
reference to the Outlook library, it isn't going to recognize OE. (Also,
OE doesn't expose much in the way of programmatic control, so you'll
have a hard time doing much except very basic stuff from Access.)

If you meant to say the Access has a reference to OE, then I'd like to
know how you managed that, as AFAIK, there is no such animal.

Perhaps you should step back and take a short break, then go back and
carefully compare the computers that are working with those that are
not. There's going to be something -- perhaps quite obscure -- but it'll
be there.

Good luck!
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