(presuming that any current release would have all the upgrades in it)

Nope, a new version of Excel 2003, if you can still find it, is the virgin
version. After installation, it asks if you want to troll the internet for
updates.

Excel 2003 SP2 was pretty stable. SP3 is also stable, but somewhere in there
Microsoft changed the RefEdit control, and a lot of my clients have problems
with dialogs that have refedits. The error message is nice: Unspecified
Error, followed by Out Of Memory, and everyone probably recognizes the error
number by now: 80004005.

I guess I'm advising you to stick with what you have. Shut down Excel, clean
out the temp directory, and also "C:\Documents and
Settings\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Forms\". then start up again
and see if that's any better.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services, Inc.
774-275-0064
208-485-0691 fax

http://PeltierTech.com/
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"Brettjg" wrote in message
...
Thankyou all for your responses. The general opinion seems to be that 2007
just isn't worth it, and I'm happy to stay with 2003.

However, I will still have the crashing problem which occurs at least
twice
per week, and sometimes several times in a day (like yesterday, which is
why
it took me a while to respond to you all - I'm surprised you didn't hear
me,
wherever you are on the planet).

I note that there are some upgrades for Ex 2003 available, but I've always
been loath to do an upgrade for fear of it screwing me completely, and
costing me days and days or repair work. My Ex 2003 is "as delivered" in
2003. How easy/safe is it to put through some upgrades please? Or should I
perhaps just repurchase Ex 2003 and install that (presuming that any
current
release would have all the upgrades in it)? Regards, Brett.