>Thank you very much for your valuable help. Your answer was on the mark. I am sorry that I have not responded earlier to your feedback, because this task is still in progress. When I am done I will provide you with the code that I used which is largely based on your code.

Cetin is the best, eh? :)

>In the meantime I am having a particular difficulty in clearing the “windord.exe” from memory. I have tried numerous methods to no avail such as.
>
>Release all like o*
>OForm=null
>
>Any ideas?

How are you creating the reference? You may need to call the Quit (?) method on the word object.