OL2007, messages don't always close after sending

[Rojo Habe]

Let's say I've just finished a spreadsheet and I want to send it to someone.
I'll click the big Office button and choose Send -> Email, and up pops a new
email message with my spreadsheet attached. All fine so far until I click
the Send button (or Alt-S, or Ctrl-Enter, doesn't matter which). The
message appears in the Outbox and Outlook will send it, but it also stays
open in front of Excel until I click the Close button. I can still make
further edits to my workbook, but the email message is in the way and I
can't see what I'm doing, until I manually close it and all is fine again.
What's more it doesn't happen every time, just most times. It's more of an
annoyance than anything else, but I wondered if anybody else had experienced
it?

The above is just an example. The same thing happens with Word, Excel 2000,
or any other file attachment. It can also happen if I launch a new email
from within Outlook and attach the file manually, although it seems to
happen slightly less often this way.

Just to clarify, I'm using Office 2007 Trial Version. I still have Office
2000 installed for the duration, and in fact still need to use Excel 2000
due to incompatibility with some files from my clients. What I'll probably
do at the end of the trial is go back to Office 2000 but I'll still need to
upgrade Outlook since Outlook 2000 doesn't work with Vista.

Oh yes, and I'm using Vista Ultimate. Forgot to mention that.

 

[Rojo Habe]

Let's say I've just finished a spreadsheet and I want to send it to
someone. I'll click the big Office button and choose Send -> Email, and up
pops a new email message with my spreadsheet attached. All fine so far
until I click the Send button (or Alt-S, or Ctrl-Enter, doesn't matter
which). The message appears in the Outbox and Outlook will send it, but
it also stays open in front of Excel until I click the Close button. I
can still make further edits to my workbook, but the email message is in
the way and I can't see what I'm doing, until I manually close it and all
is fine again. What's more it doesn't happen every time, just most times.
It's more of an annoyance than anything else, but I wondered if anybody
else had experienced it?

The above is just an example. The same thing happens with Word, Excel
2000, or any other file attachment. It can also happen if I launch a new
email from within Outlook and attach the file manually, although it seems
to happen slightly less often this way.

Just to clarify, I'm using Office 2007 Trial Version. I still have Office
2000 installed for the duration, and in fact still need to use Excel 2000
due to incompatibility with some files from my clients. What I'll
probably do at the end of the trial is go back to Office 2000 but I'll
still need to upgrade Outlook since Outlook 2000 doesn't work with Vista.

Oh yes, and I'm using Vista Ultimate. Forgot to mention that.

Just an update to this, (although I'm assuming from the lack of response
that I'm unique in experiencing this):

The same thing will happen if I DON'T send the mail, but close it instead
using the Close button in the top right-hand corner. I have to close it
twice to make the window go away.

And now it happens every time I launch a new mail from within another
application (using File/Send To, or whatever the equivalent command is
depending on the app).