John and Mark,

Thank you both of you for your replay. Sure in my applications I can control it. But my question is related to the Excel/Word applications which are created by another developers. I do not know what programming technic/language they use. I have the window handle only (oWordHandle from my code). So, how to close Excel Application unconditionally having oWordHandle?


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>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:
>*------------------------
>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
>*----------------------------
>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.
ActiveWorkbook.Saved = .T. will close Excel without a prompt.
Mark