Insufficient memory 2

[Jesus]

All of a sudden a few PC's have decided to not play fair and throw up "insufficient memory" error messages in Word & Excel 97. <br>
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I can't see any link between these machines to make them all start doing it (they're in different departments), and I know of another machine at another company that is also doing the same thing.<br>
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The PC's have 64MB RAM and plenty of HDD space, so I don't know what goes on!!! This error message is quite generic, so it really doesn't mean much, but why is it happening all of a sudden??????<br>
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Any thoughts/suggestions greatly appreciated.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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[ashjanet]

I've had a few PCs so this to me also.<br>
A reboot makes it go away.<br>
Since it doesn't happen all the time I believe it is caused by a particular sequence of events. <br>
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The order in which programs are opened/closed/minimized leaves trash somewhere in RAM that the Office apps don't like.<br>
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ASH - Janet<br>

 

[Warcorp]

Jesus,<br>
You might also want to check the normal.dot files and make sure there isn't corruption there, or infection, specifically by macro viruses. You can check in the tools¦macros area for that info.<br>

 

[KimiSue]

We've had this rampant through our office. Guess what? Microsoft recognizes as a known problem and has a patch fit it (as we discovered this week!) The patch is called SR2 and can be found on the Microsoft site (

http://officeupdate.microsoft.com)

 

[moman]

I have a similar problem but it happens in Outlook 98 if I config it to use Word as the e-mail editor. I've installed Office SR-2 but still has the same problem. So I change to Rich Text as the e-mail editor and it doesn't happen again.<br>
Hope this would help.