Why QUIT method doesn't work after COPY method?

[surotkin]

Hello everyone,

I found that I can not unload Excel (I open Excel-instance from Access
using objExcel.Quit method after I execute Copy method of Range object.

There is part of my code (without error handler block) which copie
cells from one worksheet, creates a new worksheet and pastes thos
cells with transpose option:

Public Function myTest2() As Long
Dim objExcel As Excel.Application
Dim wb As Excel.Workbook
Dim ws As Excel.Worksheet
Dim ws_source As Excel.Worksheet
myTest2 = 0

Set objExcel = New Excel.Application
objExcel.Workbooks.Open FileName:="D:\test.xls"
Set wb = objExcel.Workbooks("test.xls")
Set ws_source = wb.Worksheets(1)

ws_source.Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(10, 20)).*Copy*
wb.Sheets.Add
Set ws = wb.ActiveSheet
ws.Range("A1").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteAll, Operation:=xlNone
SkipBlanks:=False, Transpose:=True
objExcel.CutCopyMode = False

wb.Close SaveChanges:=True

objExcel.*Quit*

Set ws = Nothing
Set ws_source = Nothing
Set wb = Nothing
Set objExcel = Nothing

End Function


Does anybody have an idea why?

Thanks.
surotki

 

[Conrad]

If you explicitly refer to the Excel object instead of implicitly then you
should be good to go. I noticed in your code that you are refering to a cell
using - ws_source.Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(10, 20)).*Copy*. Refering to
cells like this would be implicit. So I usually run Excel from Access using
code similiar to this -
Dim xl As New Excel.Application
Dim wrksheet As Excel.Worksheet

With xl
.Visible = True
.DisplayAlerts = False
.Workbooks.Open "C:\Test.xls"
.Cell("A1").Select
.Selection.Copy
.Cell("A2").Select
.Selection.Paste
.ActiveWorkbook.Close
.DisplayAlerts = True
.Quit
End With

Set xl = Nothing

Hope this helps.

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

This kind of code creates a ghost (unreleasable reference) to Excel and can
cause this problem

ws_source.Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(10, 20)).Copy

this should be written

ws_source.Range(ws_source.Cells(1, 1), ws_source.Cells(10, 20)).*Copy*

You certainly might have more such constructs - everything should be fully
qualified all the way back to the Excel application object. ws_source
already is, so you can start from there.

 

[surotkin]

Hi Tom Ogilvy and Conrad,
thanks for responses.

I started with Tom's recommendation.
It works.
I felt there is a ghost (unreleasable reference) to Excel in my code.

I use full reference now:
ws_source.Range(ws_source.Cells(1, 1), ws_source.Cells(10, 20)).Copy

instead of:
ws_source.Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(10, 20)).Copy

It made my code working properly.

Many thanks.

surotki