I've got this app that's driving me nuts. Excel is
automating Word to do a mail merge. The problem is after
doing the merge and quitting excel, the task manager show
excel still running in the back ground. Can one of you
wonder Office guru's point me in the right direction.

Here is what I've pretty much proven to myself. The excel
file has a bunch of forms and only 2 sheets. If I don't do
the mail merge there is no problem when quitting excel. So
I'm sure the problem lies in the mail merge somewhere. If
I use my normal code to open word and a non mail merge
doc, there is no problem. If only happens when I do the
merge.

Here is what I think is the possible code problem areas.

In each word mail merge doc that excel opens the following
code is in the doc open.
(I did this so they can look at any of the docs without
having to go through my code.)

Private Sub Document_Open()
ActiveDocument.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = wdFormLetters
ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource Name:= _
"C:\mydir\mydata.xls" _
, ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:=True,
LinkToSource:=True, _
AddToRecentFiles:=False, PasswordDocument:="",
PasswordTemplate:="", _
WritePasswordDocument:="",
WritePasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, _
Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto, Connection:= _
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Password="""";Us e
r ID=Admin;Data
Source=C:\mydir\mydata.xls;Mode=Read;Extended
Properties=""HDR=YES;IMEX=1;"";Jet OLEDB:System
database="""";Jet OLEDB:Registry Path="""";Jet O" _
, SQLStatement:="SELECT * FROM `PrintOut`",
SQLStatement1:="", _
OpenExclusive:=False, SubType:=wdMergeSubTypeAccess
End Sub

I've tried adding the following code to the word document
close with no effect.

Private Sub Document_Close()
ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.Close
End Sub

Here is the excel code that launches word and automates
it. I'm guessing that this is ok because if I have it run
using a non-mail merge doc I don't see the problem. But at
this point I'm really not sure.

Sub StepOne()

strpath = "C:\mydir\"

' 'Start Word

Dim ox As Object
Set ox = CreateObject("word.application")
ox.Visible = True
ox.Options.DefaultOpenFormat = 1

'Open MyMailmerge.com

ox.Documents.Open Filename:=strpath
+ "mymailmerge.doc"

'ox.Documents.Open Filename:=strpath
+ "mynonmailmerge.doc"

ox.Selection.WholeStory
ox.Selection.Copy
ox.activedocument.Close
'Open A new blank doc
Set docNew = ox.Documents.Add
tempstr = strpath + "mydata.xls"
docNew.mailmerge.MainDocumentType = 0
'Set Data source in new doc
docNew.MailMerge.OpenDataSource Name:="" + tempstr
+ "", _
ReadOnly:=True, _
Connection:= _
"Provider=MSDASQL.1;Persist Security
Info=True;Extended Properties=""DSN=Excel
Files;DBQ=C:\mydir\mydata.xls;DefaultDir=C:\mydir; DriverId=
790;MaxBuf" _
, SQLStatement:="SELECT * FROM `PrintOut`",
SQLStatement1:=""

' 'Paste Check set to new doc

Set Range2 = docNew.Content
Range2.Collapse Direction:=0
Range2.Paste

With ox.activedocument.MailMerge
.Destination = 1
.SuppressBlankLines = True
With .DataSource
.FirstRecord = 1
.LastRecord = -16
End With
.Execute Pause:=False
End With

ox.activedocument.Close SaveChanges:=0
Set docNew = Nothing
Set Range2 = Nothing

ox.Quit
Set ox = Nothing
End Sub

Here is my excel shut down code. Again I don't think this
is the problem area because if word docs are not mail
merge there is no problem.

Sub MyShutdown()
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Application.DisplayFormulaBar = True
Application.CommandBars("Standard").Visible = True
Application.CommandBars("Formatting").Visible = True
Application.CommandBars("Cell").Reset
If Worksheets("Main").FilterMode = True Then
Selection.AutoFilter
End If
Cancel = False
ActiveWorkbook.Save
Application.Quit
End Sub

What the heck am I doing wrong.
TIA
Jeff