Ditto on NT4. Curious that oExcel = .NULL would get rid of it completely. I mean, that's good but you would think an explicit quit would work.



>>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:
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>.Quit leaves the program running.
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>oXL = .NULL.
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>gets rif of it completely.