I have a VFP program that uses Automation to run word.

I know how to quit word, but how can I verify that the quit really worked. I'm especially concerned about a situation where quitting causes word to post a dialog which is hung waiting for an answer (if the word app is hiding).

I know that I can use oword.quit(wdDoNotSaveChanges) to prevent the usual 'Do you want to save the changes' dialog, but I don't have warm fuzzies that this is the only thing that could cause word to pause quitting while waiting for an answer.

I have discovered that successfully quitting word does not release local object reference variables I use to access it, nor does it set them to NULL. So checking for these conditions (existence and/or nullity) aren't helpful.

Couldn't find anything in 'MS Office Automation with VFP' to help me.