John,
Have you tried:
Application.Quit?

Henry


"John" wrote in message
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I'm starting a new Vb.Net project and I will be using Office Automation
(Excel only) with a web service to open and prints excel docs for users.

How can I be sure excel closes after it prints and if it doesn't how do I
forcibly close excel without rebooting the server or stopping the Web
service?