Several messages to microsoft newsgroups have been posted regarding excel's
persistence until a program is shut down, but there seems to be no answer.

KB article Q317109
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;317109 seems to not
work? This question seems to be unanswered for VB net.

I don't have vb net. Programming with Visual Basic 6, the same behaviour is
easily reproduced - excel in the running processes list that won't go away.

try this:

'---------------------------------------
Dim oXLApp As Excel.Application
Dim oXLWb As Excel.Workbook
Dim oXLWs As Excel.Worksheet

Set oXLApp = New Excel.Application
oXLApp.DisplayAlerts = False

Set oXLWb = oXLApp.Workbooks.Add
oXLWb.Worksheets.Worksheets(1).Name = "my sheet"

Set oXLWs = oXLWb.Worksheets("my sheet")

'-- insert some data to excel

oXLApp.Quit
'// the above statement optional whether to close the instance of excel,
leave it open, save it prior in VB, whatever.

Set oXLWs = Nothing
Set oXLWb = Nothing
Set oXLApp = Nothing

'------------------------------
The excel object will stay in the process list no matter what combination of
the above is entered until the calling program is shut down. KB Q317109 says
this is by design. ahhhhhhhhhhh.

Help please. I want to get rid of excel without my users shutting down the
program.