Thanks, jimbo45; I have run Linux in VirtualBox on a Windows PC but not the other way round yet; not enough RAM.

Mine is Office 2013, for info, and for reasons of both cost and embuggerance I have no intention of upgrading unless forced so to do. I would have switched to Linux fifteen years ago but for the lack...

Mine is Office 2013, for info, and for reasons of both cost and embuggerance I have no intention of upgrading unless forced so to do. I would have switched to Linux fifteen years ago but for the lack...

I have just joined (March 2019) specifically to say THANK YOU for the info in this thread; "never in a kazillion years would I have guessed this to be the cause" sums it up perfectly! I was wading...