WMIC Query to variable. 99% complete

[flutters]

The end goal here is to make a login script that calls a program only if outlook is installed on a computer.

Thus far, I have this

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FOR /F "skip=1 tokens=* delims==" %%A IN ('WMIC /NameSpace:"\\root\WMI" product where "Name like '%%Outlook%%'" get Name') DO set "myVar=%%A"
ECHO %myVar%

This works, if you have echo on, you will see it pull the name of whatever flavor of outlook you currently have. However immediately after this, you can see it setting the Var to blank.

Is there some way to make this script stop after finding any value? Or am I missing something obvious that causes it to wipe my variable.

Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.

[Compo]

WMIC Output is notoriously bad to capture and whilst there are methods of fixing the output, why not just change to a registry check?

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Reg Query HKCR\Outlook.Application >Nul 2>&1 && <code to run program>