>I am wondering if I am doing something wrong here but I am using automation (thanks to all of you) to extract a large amount of data from Excel.
>At the end of the program I use
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>obook.close()
>oexcel.quit
>
>I noticed some problems after this. Everything is closed but on the task manager it still shows Excel as a running process. Has anyone else experienced the same thing?

Curtis,

Besides what Michael has said, I'd ask about how you are retrieving the data. Specifically, are you using a FOR EACH...NEXT to iterate through a range of cells? If so, there's an issue with VFP properly realeasing the variable reference to Excel.