>I have created a word automation object,
>does the work I needed, then closed the
>word session as follows:
>
>oWord.Quit()
>
>Word appears to quit, but in my Task
>Manager, I still see a copy of Word open.
>
>And that's not all. Ot seems to have a hold
>on the document I was working with.
>
>So what's going on? How to I truly kill the
>word session?
>
>Thanks In Advance

Did you save and close the document you were working with?

Opening word with

oWord = CREATEOBJECT('Word.Application')
oWord.Quit()

releases just fine. (you are using the word.application object and not the word.basic object right?)