Re: Office 2001: Can't save in Excel or Word

From: Jim Gordon MVP (goldkey74_at_WarmerThanWarmMail.com)
Date: 05/01/04 

Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 11:56:27 -0400

Hi Jared,

What you are describing sounds like memory related issues. It may be that
your hard drive is nearly full or that you have run out of real RAM and your
computer is using the hard drive as virtual memory (hence, the thrashing of
your hard drive).

So first, make sure you have given your office applications lots and lots of
RAM allocation in the Preferred setting using Finder's Get Info command. You
might need 25000 for Excel and 40000 for Word.

The thing is, does your computer have enough actual RAM to comfortably
accommodate these settings plus cover MacOS and all the other applications
you want to run simultaneously?

So add-em up! Word, 40 Meg + Excel 25 Meg + MacOS 75 Meg + Every Other
Application. Make sure you have have plenty of real RAM for your computer.

-Jim

On 4/30/04 7:53 PM, in article 1083369160.602550@news-1.nethere.net, "Jared"
<replytogroup@please.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running OS8.6 w/office 2001.
>
> I brought a excel file to my Mac from a PC. When I tryed to save it I
> got the hour glass and it just stayed there and wouldn't save so I had
> to shut the machine down.
>
> Later I began to have the same problem with Word. It seems to be getting
> worse. Now I can't save or open any existing file in excel or word.
>
> Before this happened it seemed to me that Word was slowing a lot and
> doing a lot of hard disk "thrashing" as I was opening, closing, saving.
>
> I have increased the memory alottment, tossed the preferences and
> renamed to normal.doc.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jared 

-- 
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
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