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Re: WFW 2.0 "Out of Memory" Error

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From: Lachlan Cranswick
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:48
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pan@sunvax.sun.ac.za writes:


>The problem is that every now and again, one or more of the computers, 
>give the message:  Out of Memory, when Word for Windows is running.  You are
>then unable to do anything, such as saving a document.  The only option is to
>load another copy of Word for Windows and copy and paste the contents of the
>other Word for Windows into the new copy!  

>In other words for some reason there
>is enough memory to load an entire new copy of Word for Windows, but not enough
>to save a document in the first copy of Word for Windows.

>Any suggestion to what causes this error and how it can be solved would be
>greatly appreciated!

Just got email from a bloke in the USA from a previous
post on this error.  From his conversations with MS, the solution
may be to turn of the fast save feature of Word that
is setup as the default save.  It seems the fast save is buggy
and leads to this problem.

This may help,  Lachlan.
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  Lachlan Cranswick  -  CSIRO             _--_|\  lachlan@dmp.CSIRO.AU
  Division of Mineral Products           /      \ tel +61 3 647 0367
  PO Box 124, Port Melbourne 3207        \_.--._/ fax +61 3 646 3223
  AUSTRALIA                                    v 
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Subject: Re: WFW 2.0 "Out of Memory" Error
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