Excel VBA quit Word document

Question

I have a macro that inserts select cells of an Excel document into a Word template, copies the entire Word document then closes the document without saving, to preserve cert

Answer 1

I had the same problem. And only code below closed this Word window:

Dim x As Variant

X = Shell("powershell.exe kill -processname winword", 1)

I found this code in one of the answers Closing word application from excel vba

Answer 2

Please add the below to your code:

appWd.Quit

This would be between

appWd.ActiveDocument.Close SaveChanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges

and

Set appWd = Nothing

That calls the WinWord Quit method, which should solve your problem.