I have "the phantom app Excel.EXE" issue, addressed on Tushar's site.

It happened in code where I create a new instance of excel and do lots of
stuff. I have tried qualifying everything. Finally boiled down to the
following lies of code that will produce the problem.. The line that adds a
workbook seems to be the problem, although I have tried everything I could
think of, even pausing and manually opening a blank workbook....still get the
phantom on closing.

Thanks for the help...

Option Explicit

Public XLNEW As Object
Public XLUser As Object

Sub NEWAPPTEST()
Set XLUser = GetObject(, "excel.application")
Set XLNEW = CreateObject("excel.application")
XLNEW.Workbooks.Add
'additional code here typically
XLNEW.Workbooks().Close
XLNEW.Quit
Set XLNEW = Nothing
set xluser = nothing
End Sub