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copied!<p><em>Office Interop is an option (slow as you already discovered) but beware: it is <strong>not supported</strong> by MS in server-like scenarios (like ASP.NET or Windows Service or similar) - see <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q257757#kb2" rel="nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q257757#kb2</a> !</em></p> <p>Usually some library is used to achieve what you want:<br/></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb448854%28office.14%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">MS provides the OpenXML SDK V 2.0</a> (free, supports only DOCX)</li> <li><a href="http://www.aspose.com/categories/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">Aspose.Words</a> (commercial, supports DOC and DOCX)</li> </ul> <p>The library approach is usually very fast, usable with multi-threading, usable in server-scenarios and comes with lots of additional possibilities...</p> <p>As for your <em>Second</em> point: with Interop you need to call <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.word.applicationclass.quit%28v=office.14%29.aspx" rel="nofollow"><code>Quit</code></a> to close the application... although sometimes you need to call <code>System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject</code> too (which can have some undesired side-effects see <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yvesdolc/archive/2004/04/17/115379.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yvesdolc/archive/2004/04/17/115379.aspx</a>)</p>

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