Excel process not ending

[Johnny]

I am running Word and Excel 2002 on a Windows XP machine.

I'm using a table in Excel for a mail merge into Word. I
open Excel then Word. (If I open Word first it says the
excel file is locked for editing.) Word updates the
information for the mail merge. Even if I close them
right after I open them it still keeps Excel in processes
in the task manager. It does not matter the order I close
them in. It seems, for some reason, that the link to make
the mail merge is keeping excel open. Thank you.

Johnny

 

[Guest]

I just posted the same problem in the excel programming
fourm with my code. Still don't have a respose.

Jeff

 

[Johnny]

I'm not using any code in mine. I manually open the excel
document, manually open the word document. Even without
actually doing the merge, ie merge to new document, is
excel won't close. I open them both then turn right
around and close both. Excel.exe is in the processes.