>when you're not anywhere at all. Rookie question.
>
>In getting the hang of Automation with Word, I have managed to learn to launch, compose docs, save, print, etc.
>
>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? ...
>
>Needless to say, I can't 'see' these on the task bar as I could if I opened them interactively. Where do they live?
>
>And how do I dispose of them neatly when done?
>
>Thanks

If you don't want to save them, use the quit method as in:

oword.activedocument.quit(.f.)
oword=''
release oword