>when you're not anywhere at all. Rookie question.
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>In getting the hang of Automation with Word, I have managed to learn to launch, compose docs, save, print, etc.
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>What I can't do is close the doc effectively. When I finally run out of resources / memory, etc., this is evidenced by the fact that it asks me repeatedly as I shut down 'Save mydoc.doc? Save mydoc.doc? Save mydoc.doc? ...
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>Needless to say, I can't 'see' these on the task bar as I could if I opened them interactively. Where do they live?
Use the Quit method, then be sure to set the variable holding the reference to NULL.
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>And how do I dispose of them neatly when done?
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>Thanks
George
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