Word 2007 users - does this happen to you?

First make sure Outlook 2007 is NOT open. Open a document saved in (or create a document and save it in) “WORD 97–2003 DOCUMENT (*.doc). Click on the Office button and click SEND, then EMAIL. The system just HANGS.
You can’t close WORD because you get “You cannot close MS Word until the SEND command is finished”. You have to CTRL-ALT-DEL and go to the APPLICATION tab and END TASK. Let me know if this happens to you to. I think it’s a software glitch. I use XP Pro, with Office 2007 Pro.