Hi cdj,

I've tried the approach I gave you using the Microsoft Office
references(Early Binding) and in fact it still gives the desired effect.  I
tried it out in a button click handler on a form.  The following code does
nothing fancy, all it does is show Excel, waits for 5 seconds then quits
Excel again.  If you use Task Manager you should be able to see the excel
process coming alve and then being unloaded from memory

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass App = new
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass();

App.Visible = true;

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);

App.Quit();

System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(App);

}

Hope this helps.

Stuart King

Informology Ltd.