Hi Larry,

Thanks for the tip, It worked great. Interesting that Outlook and Excel don't require a Quit though.

Gavin...

>Gavin,
>While I can't explain the problem (it exists with NT 4 and SP3 of VFP as well), a workaround is to issue a oWord.Quit before releasing the variable (although you probably figured that out by now *s*).
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>> I'm having a problem when creating instances of Word 2000 through VFP6.0 SP4.
>>
>>I am doing the following:
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>>oWord = CreateObject("word.application")
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>>* Rest of code
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>>RELEASE oWord
>>
>>I would have thought that the instance of Word would have disappeared after the RELEASE, but it remains. I can create Outlook and Excel objects using the same syntax and they disappear after issuing RELEASE.
>>
>>Any Ideas?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Gavin...