OK, mark onw up to my paranoia.

Thanks


>I found a bunch of old code where we did something, and I am wondering were we insane or is this really OK.
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>1. We get an instance of Word into say oWord
>2. We manipulate the document as we wish.
>3. We make word visible'
>4. We tell the user now you can save, print, do what you want.
>5. THEN WE RELEASE OWORD!
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>I guess since word is open on the desktop somebody figured it was OK to go ahead and release oWord I said, hey, you cannot do that reliably, and they said why not, and I said uh uh uh uh . . . . . I dunno.
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>Is this bad, and if so why, or am I just an overcautious geek?
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>What did you expect to happen? All you were doing was releasing VFP's reference to Word. If you had issued
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>oWord.Quit()
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>Now, that would be a different story :)