>Hi Joe,
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>I missed the OLE part of your question, duh...:-) While I've never dealt with multiple instances of automation servers, I would guess that if you used array elements to receive the value returned by CREATEOBJECT(), you could simply loop through and set them to .NULL. That should shut down the individual instances. Again, though, this is a guess.
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>hth,

Still doesn't work.. What abour processes? I think rather than threads it's leaving processes open. I went through the Word Perfect OLE commands and it didn't have one(that I could find) for destroying other processes/threads. This situation is becoming a rather large annoyance. The way some of my customers use the app, it winds up with 8 or 9 processes left open. Word behaves fine in this instance (but not as well as WP in others ; ) ) I'm lost here. Anyboody have any ideas?