In Excel VBA working in the current instance of Excel,

Application.Quit

will close all workbooks and close Excel.

If you are calling it from using Excel as an automation server, then if
there is an existing reference to Excel that hasn't been released, excel
will continue to be visible in the task manager.

In the first case, there may be things that could cause Excel not to close,
but the normal behavior is for Excel to close.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Jeff" wrote in message
...

-----Original Message-----
Jeff wrote:
I don't know if there is a statement in VBA to close
and
exit Excel. I am able to close my workbook using
the 'close' statement, but I leaves excel running. I
would like a complete exit of excel and have the
machine
return to the desktop

Application.Quit?

cheers,
Stephan.


.

Application.quit closes the file but leaves excel running,
as well as the VB editor, although the editor may be
incidental, due to my use of the editor.