thanks man...
it worked!
but the thing is, when i have to excel applications open it only closes one application even though im running 2 different macros , 1 macro on each excel application. I say application because they are not 2 workbooks on one excel app, it is 2 diff excel apps. Each macro has the close procedure with the excel file name to close, yet it only closes 1 excel application? how do i get pass this??. When i am finsihed running the macros, no excel programs should be running. what am i doing wrong?