Here is a crude way to kill the Word process.
Sub Kill_Word()
Dim sKillWord As String
sKillWord = "TASKKILL /F /IM Winword.exe"
Shell sKillWord, vbHide
End Sub
Process Window
Use this option if you are sure that the process is unused one
Monday, April 27, 2009
How to Kill the Word Process using VBA
Developers who are working on Word VBA would have experienced the Word Crash problem more often.
Here is a crude way to kill the Word process.
Sub Kill_Word()
Dim sKillWord As String
sKillWord = "TASKKILL /F /IM Winword.exe"
Shell sKillWord, vbHide
End Sub
Process Window
Here is a crude way to kill the Word process.
Sub Kill_Word()
Dim sKillWord As String
sKillWord = "TASKKILL /F /IM Winword.exe"
Shell sKillWord, vbHide
End Sub
Process Window
Thank you
ReplyDeleteYou saved the day
Thanks! This was exactly what I needed.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't work for me in XP get a 53 error message
ReplyDelete53 means file not found, so winword.exe is probably already closed.
Deleteu saved my life, finally that works... ty :)
ReplyDeletethankyou! thankyou! thankyou!
ReplyDeletehowever, if you are running this in excel you may wait to put a wait in after it. I make mine wait 5 secs and everything works fine afterwards
Very helpful thanks just what was needed
ReplyDeleteVery Helpful. just what was needed when word continues as background process after
ReplyDeleteset WrdApp = Nothing