>Dear All,
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>When I instantiate excel from the VFP Command window, do stuff, then do a loExcel.quit() Indeed it'll quit, but process will stay (in the windows task manager). Then if I do loExcel = '' (we're still in the VFP command window), I see the process disappear from the processes list.
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>I tried this in a method, but unfortunately the process will stay in the Processes list.
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>What can I do programmatically, to resolve this issue.
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>Thx in advance.
>
>Aldrich Arendsz

Try

loExcel.Quit()
loExcel = null
release loExcel 

to be 99.95% sure.