No, I confess I'm at a loss. If you are indeed quitting the Excel application, then I don't have any more ideas...I haven't had any trouble like you describe, except when I wasn't *really* quitting the application.

Good luck.


>I´ve already done that. I´m on w95, but pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL does not show any excel reference.
>
>Even from the program, if I don´t use:
>MyExcel.activeworkbook.pagesetup.centerheader = "my header"
>it frees memory correctly, but using this line makes the problem show up.
>
>Any further help?
>
>>Hi, Cristóbal:
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>>Again, if you are running NT and check the task list, do you still see the Excel object in the running processes? If you're running W95 or98, and you press CTRL-ALT-DEL, do you still see an Excel object after running your code?
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>>Just by releaseing MyExcel, you are not shutting down the application. You are just releasing the VFP object reference. You probably need something like a MyExcel.Quit (or similar).
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>>>If I run the following lines from the command window, the amount of available memory stays the same
>>...snip