Grigore,

It's probably just the time it takes Excel to finish writing the file to disk, flushing buffers, then the time it take Excel to unload from memory and return the memory to the O/S. This is probably especially true if you are running low on memory and some things have swapped to disk. 2-3 seconds isn't enough to worry about, you might want to provide some feedback to the user that you are waiting for Excel to shut down, before they can continue work.

>Hello, Alex
>
>You are right, running your code I get the same result.
>However, I think I miss something. Here is my code:
>
>

>* do the report here
>lcFisier.SAVEAS(lcCaleNume)
>x.QUIT
>x = .NULL.
>Thisform.Release
>

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>If i execute the lines step-by-step in debugger, they execute almost instantaneous (including thisform.release), but if I run the form, after saving the file, my form stays on screen another 2-3 seconds, unresponsive, then releases. Do you have any idea why, please?