Hi -

My excel instance just seems to crash (disappear) when ever I reply to an
email, write a new email or open Word. Word is not my email editor.

I have tried uninstalling office then re-installing, tried repairing excel,
tried resetting the registry settings (start - run - excel /unregserver the
start - run - excel /regserver)

This is getting a bit irritating. Close as I can come to a root cause is a
MS Offcie and/or windows security update. I am not losing much (if any
work), but its trying.

Any ideas?