An api call to end an Excel process 1

Think very carefully about what you are asking for...

I would be immensely *********** off with you & your software if it arbitarily decided to shut down a copy of excel, without warning and probably in a rather dirty fashion.

That being said, perhaps you could use an already running instance of Excel by calling getobject and examining your return value before Using CreateObject to create another instance.(you will need to use late binding).

I would also suggest that you look at you code closely to see why the XL object is still in existence. There are a number of gotcha's with automation of XL that you need to investigate (explicit creation and release of objects & subobjects for example). I am sure that there is an excellent FAQ either in the VBA or VB forums on Excel automation.

IMHO trying to use an API to brute force kill the object is not solving the problem, just covering it up

Take Care

Matt
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One FAQ worth a look is faq222-3383

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Matt
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

Failure of a MS-Office app to close down is caused 99.9% of the time by the developer failing to close all the objects that Excel (or Word, etc) created on their behalf.

For example: if you create a new workbook object, you should know that Excel automatically creates three worksheet objects for you as children of the workbook. You need to set those sheets to Nothing before setting the workbook object to Nothing.

Failure to do this (in this order) means you will have orphaned some objects, and Excel won't close itself if it thinks that any objects are still in use.

BTW, this is a better question for the VBA or Visual Basic forums.

Chip H.


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This is how I do it in Visual FoxPro:

oExcel = createobject('Excel.application')
oWbl = oExcel.workbooks.open('C:\Shared\Bsl.xls')

oExcel.WINDOWS("Bsl.xls").ACTIVATE
OExcel.ROWS("2:32000").SELECT
oExcel.SELECTION.DELETE
oExcel.Visible = .T.

* Destroy the Automation object variable
oExcel = Null

The trick is the last line: oExcel = Null

If you want the VBA code, open Excel. Under Tools/Macros select Record new macro. Then open your file, close it and print the macro.

Pat