Make it visible to see what's causing the trouble:

excelApp.visible = true

before you try to quit

Excel may be waiting for a click of a button from you.



zino wrote:

the follwoing procedure create a simple Excel object and try to close it, but
the Excel process still in memory

public sub createExcel
Dim excelApp As Excel.Application
excelApp = New Excel.Application
excelApp.Application.Quit() ' I tried excelApp.Quit() and did not work
excelApp = Nothing
End sub

how can I solve it?

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Dave Peterson