WinWord.exe won't quit after calling Word.Documents.Add - Word .NET Interop

Question

I\'m running into the classic scenario where, when creating Word COM objects in .NET (via the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word assembly), the WinWord process won\'t exit even t

Answer 1

I had tried to automate a document's creation in word from vb.net, but winword.exe was still running, even after I closed the document. I stumbled upon a solution to this problem; I moved the dim of the word object to inside the subroutine I was using to edit the document, as opposed to dimensioning it independent of a subroutine (my initial method).

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