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