Have an automated Excel routine I run on a PC, but the one problem I have is
that if Excel is already open I get an error if it tries to open excel
again.

Is there a way to make sure Excel is closed from a Command Prompt in my
Batch File?

Hi Al,

Al Franz wrote:
Have an automated Excel routine I run on a PC, but the one problem I
have is that if Excel is already open I get an error if it tries to
open excel again.

Is there a way to make sure Excel is closed from a Command Prompt in
my Batch File?

IMO it would be better to figure out why this is happening instead of
killing Excel. But if you must terminate a process from a batch file,
here's how you could do it:

taskkill /F /IM EXCEL.EXE

Note - this will kill Excel just like it would if you killed it from task
manager, so you'll lose anything you had open and unsaved.

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Jake Marx
MS MVP - Excel
www.longhead.com

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Is taskkill available in all versions of windows?

(Or better, what version of windows are you running?)

It wasn't found in WinXP Home edition.

Jake Marx wrote:

Hi Al,

Al Franz wrote:
Have an automated Excel routine I run on a PC, but the one problem I
have is that if Excel is already open I get an error if it tries to
open excel again.

Is there a way to make sure Excel is closed from a Command Prompt in
my Batch File?

IMO it would be better to figure out why this is happening instead of
killing Excel. But if you must terminate a process from a batch file,
here's how you could do it:

taskkill /F /IM EXCEL.EXE

Note - this will kill Excel just like it would if you killed it from task
manager, so you'll lose anything you had open and unsaved.

--
Regards,

Jake Marx
MS MVP - Excel
www.longhead.com

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Dave Peterson

Dave Peterson wrote:
Is taskkill available in all versions of windows?

(Or better, what version of windows are you running?)

It wasn't found in WinXP Home edition.

Interesting...I don't know. I'm running XP Pro SP2.

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Jake Marx
MS MVP - Excel
www.longhead.com

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According to ITWorld.com, TaskKill is only included in XP Pro.
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Scott


"Jake Marx" wrote:

Dave Peterson wrote:
Is taskkill available in all versions of windows?

(Or better, what version of windows are you running?)

It wasn't found in WinXP Home edition.

Interesting...I don't know. I'm running XP Pro SP2.

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Jake Marx
MS MVP - Excel
www.longhead.com

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Another option to close Excel using WMI
NB: Si,ilar to Jakes in that it terminates as per Taskmanager


Code
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Sub GetNumberOfEXCELProcessesRunning()
Dim strComputer As String
Dim objWMIService As Object
Dim objProcess As Object
Dim objList As Object

'//
Const XL As String = "EXCEL.EXE"
'//
strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set objList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("select * from win32_process where name='" & XL & "'")
'Set objList = objWMIService.execquery("select * from win32_process where name='EXCEL.EXE'")

MsgBox "Number of " & XL & " instances:= " & objList.Count

'// Do something like ....
For Each objProcess In objList
' '// Close Xl down
' objProcess.terminate
Next

Set objWMIService = Nothing
Set objList = Nothing
Set objProcess = Nothing

End Sub

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Currently, WMI is included when you install;

Microsoft® Windows® 2000,
Windows XP,
Windows Millennium Edition (Me).


For those running Windows 95 OSR 2, Windows 98 or Microsoft® Window
NT® 4.0, a WMI installation package can be downloaded from Microsoft
MSDN® which offers similar functionality as WMI in Windows 2000
Windows XP, and Windows Me.

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...EN-US/wmi9x.ex

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