Sometimes I need to close unconditionally all running Excel or Word applications on the remote server. I do it as described in http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q246/0/21.ASP, like:
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DECLARE LONG FindWindowA IN WIN32API STRING class, STRING title
DECLARE INTEGER SendMessage IN Win32API ;
INTEGER HWND,INTEGER Msg, Short WParam, INTEGER LPARAM

* Pass the class name for Excel - "XLMain" to FindWindowA
lcMSClassName="XLMain"

oWordHandle = FindWindowA(lcMSClassName,NULL)
do while oWordHandle>0
=SendMessage(oWordHandle,16,0,0)
oWordHandle = FindWindowA(lcMSClassName,NULL)
enddo
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The problem is when changes were made on particular file, the messagebox appears asking for "do you want to save..." and waiting for response.
In all my applications I use objExcel.DisplayAlerts=.f. to avoid it, but I can not figure out how to control others.
I will appreciate your help.