>That's what I was afraid of. As I mentioned in my post (^&$$%@ HTML tags< g >), I used both oExcel = NULL and RELEASE oExcel, just to be sure with no affect. I would hope that someone (preferably running Win 98 SE) would confirm this though, even if I'm already pretty sure of the answer.
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Don't have an SE machine but just tried on a Win98 machine, and my results were consistent with Bill's:

.Quit leaves the program running.

oXL = .NULL.

gets rif of it completely.