NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf ---- Sorry I forgot to say: I have set up a hot key that will open excel: control+alt+x. When I press the hot key, I get this strange behaviour in excel but when I press alt+tab to cycle between all my open programs, I can't find excel at all.