Paul,

I do not use VB itself, but using VBA within the workbook, I use
Application.Quit. Then in the Workbook_Close(), I use
Application.DisplayAlerts = False. Maybe you might need to place some VBA in
your workbook that you are opening in the VB script to totally close Excel.
However, to make it open/close without any prompting I use a digital
signature in the VBA so that when the workbook opens, it does not prompt
regarding macro security.

Just a thought.

Dean.

"Paul van Kan" wrote:

Hi All,

I have read a lot about problems with getting Excel to quit from VBScript,
but none of the suggestions seem to work for me. I am using VBScript 5.6 and
Excel 2002 SP3.

It doesn't get much simpler than this:

Sub Main()
Dim oExcel
Dim oWorkBook
Set oExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")

Set oWorkBook = oExcel.WorkBooks.Open("C:\TEST.XLS")
oWorkBook.Close False
Set oWorkBook = Nothing

oExcel.Quit
Set oExcel = Nothing
End Sub

Still, Excel is remaining active in the task-manager after running this
snippet. Leaving out the workbook-stuff (just starting and closing Excel)
works fine, but as soon as I start using an actual workbook, Excel won't
quit.

Does anybody have any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks,

Paul