You should always post your code for comments.
If you close the workbook where the application.quit is how can it work?
could be the problem.

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software
Granite Shoals, TX

"betty" wrote in message
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I have a workbook with public macro to open another
workbook; paste a value; close the second workbook; write
to a database; save the first workbook; quit excel. I
have tried the appication.quit without success. Is there
another command? Any suggestion is appreciated.