Roy,

Assuming that you opening Excel in VB.Net with something like:
xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")



you'd use something like this to close it:

xlApp.Quit()



hth,



Doug Glancy

"Roy T" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I am trying to create a new excel file using VB.

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workbooks.add
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs FileName:="C:\temp\newfile.xls", FileFormat:=
xlNormal, password:="", WriteResPassword:="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False,
CreateBackup:=False

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This code works fine, i can create the excel file, but once i executed
this
code, the file is took control by the Excel.exe application. even though
my
program has finished running and is close completely. I still can't open
the
newly created file. It can only be opened as read-only.

The only thing i can do is go to windows task manager and find the
Excel.exe
process and kill the process. then i can have control of the file.

I am running WinXP SP1 and Office 2003 SP1.