>>Two oops,
>>1. Sorry this is in foxpro, thought I was in office forum.
>>2. Here is my excel shut down code. Again I don't think this is the problem area because if word docs are not mail merge there is no problem.
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>My experience is that Word likes to hold onto things longer than is necessary. I wouldn't be surprised if it's holding a reference to the Excel document until you close Word, thus preventing Excel from totally shutting down.
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>Tamar

Word is suppose to be closed at that point. I'm pretty much at the end of my limited ablity to come up with work arounds. I've tried several other ways around this like removeing the data source from the work doc and having excel add it when it opens. Either way I get the same results. There is no way someone has not already run into this, unless it's the way I have it coded.

:(

TAW

Jeff