>George,
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>PMFJI, but I think VFP is treating letters from A-J as a workareas. Try the following:
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>j=CREATE("excel.application")
>j.application.quit() && error unrecognizable command
>j=.NULL.
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>k=CREATE("excel.application")
>k.application.quit() && works
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>SELECT j
>?SELECT() && returns 10
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>In general, it's probably better to avoid 1 character variables. BTW, I just found another interesting one while testing above. The following causes VFP to quit:
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>m=CREATE("excel.application")
>m.application.quit() && quits VFP on my system (VFP6 SP3)

Interesting. I agree, as I told Fred who made the same observation about the workareas.

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