I appreciate both of the replies to this dilemma.

To Kathleen's point: This is not a question of Outlook not closing properly;
it happens when Outlook is running. Syncing software asks for a second (and
sometimes third, fourth, fifth, sixteenth) instance of Outlook to start and
Outlook apparently complies. Then they just accumulate.

To Diane's point (below): I am pretty sure that the culprit is Google
Calendar sync. I don't need a utility that would close down the rogue
instances without closing all of Outlook -- I would be quite satisfied with
a utility that shut down anything that looks and smells like Outlook. As of
now, I must close Outlook, head to Task Manager, and then close all of the
outlook.exe instances that are stashed there. Today, after the long weekend,
there were 23 of them...

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