Have you recently updated your video drivers? I had some very
strange problems with the VBE window after I updated some Matrox
drivers. I rolled them back and the problems went away.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


"Janwillem van Dijk" wrote in message
l...
As of recently my word and excel consistently crash on close.
If I open excel or word without opening the VBE the procrams
close fine. If I had the VBE active, however, I get something
like "instruction ..... referenced at memory .... could not be
read".

This happens even when I do no editing whatsoever, just start
excel press Alt-F11, close VBE (no problem), save workbook (no
problem), close excel and than the error appears. Every thing
seems OK except that changes made to options et cetra are not
saved.

What could be the problem??

Office 2000, Win2k, Panda daily updated automatically and virus
check OK, MS Antispyware active and OK, no add-inns loaded, no
special startup files.

Thanks for the help,
Janwillem