objects staying in memory - RESOLVED

[stingrae]

what do people here think is the best way to remove an object from memory? for example, if have:

        Dim wrdApp As New Word.Application()
        Dim wrdDoc As Word.Document
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          :
          :
          :
        wrdDoc = Nothing
        wrdApp = Nothing

now when i step through the code with the windows task manager open (viewing processes), I see winword.exe appear after the line "dim wrdApp" in the code.

however, after i set wrdApp to nothing, the file is still running around. hence after running this code 6 times, i have 6 different instances of winword.exe running.

i have tried using GC.Dispose but this too does nothing to the processes.

does anyone have any better ideas or suggestions?