my problem is with the logioptionplusexcelAddin com add in to excel! whenever it is enabled (and for some very annoying reason, (i suspect when an update is auto installed) it re-enables itself.. then OLE actions between excel and word stop working! I have an embedded spreadsheet in my standard word template used for providing estimates to customers. Double clicking the spreadsheet part of the document should fire up excel. but every so often it entirely fails to work, word claims that it doesn't have a clue what app has produced the embedded object - and turns it into a useless link (i.e. having solved the excel issue the document has to be re-started from the template stage)... but the culprit is always that inside excel the logioptioons com addin is enabled. disable it and the template, and OLE works again... Been like this for a couple of years...