I am having great difficulty navigating the Excel forum.

For example when I clicked on the forum link to "Excel general questions" IE
returns the error that the page cannot be found. I have found that if I first
click on an Outlook forum and gain access to it, and then click on "Excel
general questions" I will gain access immediately.

After posting a question to the "Excel general questions" forum, and
receiving an email response, the link in the email to the thread took me to
an error message that the page was not found.

I then navigated manually to the forum and found my message. When I selected
the "reply" button to reply to someone who has posted an answer to me, the
reply button was totally unresponsive. I am unable to reply.

Additionally my voice recognition software, Dragon NaturallySpeaking,
returns bizarre results when I attempt to dictate in this message window.

Please advise.