"There is Not Enough Memory or Disk Space to Complete the Operation"

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dak

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I get this message in Microsoft Word v.X when I try to copy and paste something. Ive cleaned up my computer in every way I know, zapping PRam, running Cocktail, repairing permissions numerous times, etc. Also, Ive deleted enough files to free up 5 Gigs of space. Short of just diagnosing this problem by saying that "Microsoft sucks", I also cant copy and paste in Safari. Please help, I need to be able to copy and paste to write long and boring essays.

System: Powerbook G4 / 867 Mhz / 640 MB Ram

Thanks in advance
 
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dak said:
I get this message in Microsoft Word v.X when I try to copy and paste something. Ive cleaned up my computer in every way I know, zapping PRam, running Cocktail, repairing permissions numerous times, etc. Also, Ive deleted enough files to free up 5 Gigs of space. Short of just diagnosing this problem by saying that "Microsoft sucks", I also cant copy and paste in Safari. Please help, I need to be able to copy and paste to write long and boring essays.

System: Powerbook G4 / 867 Mhz / 640 MB Ram

Thanks in advance
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Sounds like you may be short on ram... though you say you have 640, are you sure the system sees it all?
 
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I believe it is a bug in the M$ application. I was donig a lot of cutting and pasting from excel to word. When I started seeing the same error message. I was able to continue my work. I think the document you are working on maybe to big or corrupted. I have about 400 pages in mine. I reduce it down to about 150 pages and the problem went away.

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try opening the word doc in TextEdit. the OS clipboard works better than anything MS has in the office clipboard
 
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Ive seen people experie4nce many many probs copying and pasting between office apps. its best to export or save as in one app, then import to the other app, not C&P.
 
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Thanks for the advice guys (girls). The thing is, it happens in Safari too like I said. And I cant copy and paste on a blank word document with every other program closed anyways. It might be my RAM or memory, but I should have enough free. How do I make sure my system sees it all and utilizes it all?
 

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