You should have followed the link ... it was a google search for mail merge programs, not a link to googles mail merge program! :laugh:

Hello I had a very similar problem with an Access database not closing in a VB.NET application. I tried various things like waiting for 5 seconds, a loop retrying every few seconds, adding "OLE DB Services=-4" to the connection string. Nothing worked reliably until I added these two lines after all the database close statements: GC.Collect() GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers() I hope this helps. Marek