>I have a VFP program that uses Automation to run word.
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>I know how to quit word, but how can I verify that the quit really worked.
Ctrl+Alt+Del opens the task manager
>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.
oWord.WindowState = 2 && Minimize
oWord.displayalerts=.f.
oWord.Quit
release oWord

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