How to Kill the particualr instance of the WINWORD in C#

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Sam Hobbs · Answer

The term kill usually indicates abnormal termination. It should not be done for normal termination. If your program is creating an instance of Word using Interop then you need to call Quit on it when you are done. If you cannot do that then please explain the situation so you can get help doing what you need to do the better way.

Dorababu Meka · Answer

Private Declare Function GetWindowThreadProcessId Lib user32 ( _ ByVal hWnd As IntPtr _ ByRef lpdwProcessId As IntPtr) As IntPtr ' create the excel instance... Dim exl As Excel.Application = New Excel.Application ' let's get it's process! Dim processId As IntPtr ' we ignore the return value since we don't care ' about the thread id... GetWindowThreadProcessId (exl.hWnd processId) Dim excelProcess As Process = Process.GetProcessById (processId.ToInt32())

Vulpes · Answer

It depends what you mean by a 'particular instance' as several document windows can be open under a single process in winword but check out this thread: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Forums/Thread/118444/how-to-avoid-opening-the-worddocument-which-is-already-open.aspx