>What was the funky state? How did you fix it?
>
>>Terry,
>>
>>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.
>>
>>>Well in that case:
>>>

release oExcel

>>>
>>>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:
>>>

oExcel.Visible=.t.
>>>oExcel.ActiveWorkBook.PrintPreview() && PRINT PREVIEW SHOW
>>>release oExcel
>>>

>>>
>>>The task dialog shows NO excel

You need to invoke the Excel Quit method as well as release the object ref:

oExcel.Quit
release oExcel