>Hi George,
>You're right about oword.quit taking care of it, when the application closes Word, it IS gone. The problem is when the user closes it. Are you saying that oword.quit() or oword=null should be added somewhere else? And one more strange thing...I tried playing around with different things and wondered what would happen if i worked with the Winword "phantom" . I used your is_run32() on it and It Returns 0 so it doesn't think it's running (?) In one instance it thinks it's running, in another it doesn't? There's no other way to remove it from the list?

I think if you can determine that the window is no longer visible (or if Is_Run32() returns 0), issuing oWord = NULL should do it. I can't replicate this with Word 2000, however. Then again I'm not doing anything other than creating an instance, making it visible, quitting it. Then Is_Run32() returns 0.