Odd Word 2011 issue

I have an odd issue with Office 2011.  At the beginning of sessions, I can tell Word, other office programs, or adobe to share email as attachment, and they will correctly open Outlook and open a new mail with the current word document, powerpoint or whatever it is, attached.  At some point during a longer session on my MacBook Air, however, this ceases to work, and the application either hangs, or generates - after a fair bit of thinking - an error message that "Word was unable to mail your document." (or Powerpoint etc.) 
I can imagine this is a memory issue or memory leak, but short of rebooting, have not found a solution. Closing and reopening outlook does not solve the problem.  Nor does closing other big memory use programs.  Outlook continues to function, so, for example, I can compose a mail and attach a saved document to it and send that ok.  But I cannot send from another application via outlook.  It's clear the other apps know that Outlook should be the mail handler, since Word, for example, shifts the focus to Outlook, but then the process goes no further.
As I say when I reboot, the system works properly.
thanks for any advice.
Mark

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http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support

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