What was the funky state? How did you fix it?

>Terry,
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>Setting loExcel = .null. will get rid of the Excel object (provided it's not in the funky state I ran into), then the VFP memvar loExcel goes out of scope when the method returns. So there's no need to specifically code a RELEASE for the memvar.
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>>Well in that case:
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release oExcel

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>>VFP can release it's reference before you close Excel (i think:). I looked at my source, and noticed that the spread sheet was opened in print preview mode:
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oExcel.Visible=.t.
>>oExcel.ActiveWorkBook.PrintPreview() && PRINT PREVIEW SHOW
>>release oExcel
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>>The task dialog shows NO excel