That's exactly what I was trying to avoid. I've been sloppy before with Automation but this time, I'm being more prudent.

I've had goofy things happen with Outlook, too, when I didn't quit.

>Word is nasty in the fact that it'll hang around out there, when I started doing the word stuff I got an out or resources error and found I had about a dozen Words running at the time... *g*
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>>Hi guys,
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>>Was adding functionality to my DESI app involving automation with Word. Was trying to figure out how to kill it. Assuming I start it up with oWord=CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")......
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>>If I Ctrl-Alt-Del to show tasks in Win98, I see "Winword". Expected.
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>>If I RELEASE oWord and Ctrl-Alt-Del, I *still* see "Winword". Hmmm
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>>If I oWord=.NULL. and Ctrl-Alt-Del, I *still* see "Winword". Hmmm again.
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>>If I quit friggin VFP, I STILL SEE "Winword". Argggh.
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>>What stupid, fundamental thing am I missing?