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I was "volunteered" for a position as newsletter editor for a non-profit charitable group, and I am nearly finished with my first edition. I'm using MS Word for Mac 2011, which seems capable; however, the file has many graphics and is becoming unwieldy in Word. In fact, on a couple occasions, Word has crashed following a message that it is out of memory. I frequently "save" the file after significant changes, but even that process takes what seems to be an inordinate amount of time.
Having gotten the memory message, I replaced the original 2Gb sticks with 4 x 4Gb sticks, bringing total memory to 16Gb. The system appears to recognize the total memory per the "About This Mac", but I still have the same problem.
My iMac is a 6-month old 3.1 Ghz i5.
The Word file is weighing in at 34Mb, with a bit more to go.
I'm wondering if there is somewhere in the system that I need to adjust who memory is allocated. Seems odd that 16Gb can't handle this file.
Having gotten the memory message, I replaced the original 2Gb sticks with 4 x 4Gb sticks, bringing total memory to 16Gb. The system appears to recognize the total memory per the "About This Mac", but I still have the same problem.
My iMac is a 6-month old 3.1 Ghz i5.
The Word file is weighing in at 34Mb, with a bit more to go.
I'm wondering if there is somewhere in the system that I need to adjust who memory is allocated. Seems odd that 16Gb can't handle this file.