Disk full message

[Mommers711]

I'm working on a large newsletter in Word 2000 & all of a sudden it won't
save anymore. It tells me: The disk is full. Free some space on this drive,
or save the document on another disk.
Try one or more of the following:
* Close any unneeded documents, programs, and windows.
* Save the document on another disk.
I have plenty of room on my hard drive & am afraid to shut down newsletter
as I don't want to lose the document. I can't save it to disk as it says it
is "read only." I have been doing this newletter this way for 10 years &
have never had a problem.
Thanks.

 

[Terry Farrell]

It sounds like it has partially corrupted. Try using SaveAs and select RTF
format. Close the document and Word. Reopen both and use SaveAs to get back
to doc format FIRST checking that under Tools, Options, Save tab the
FastSaves option is UNCHECKED.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

In addition to Terry's suggestions, you might try to save as a new
document:

Go to the File menu and open a new, blank document. Immediately save the
new document under a different file name. Next, highlight all the content
of the old document and copy it (to the clipboard). Next, go to the new
document and paste it in. After the paste operation, try to save the
document again.

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007

 

[Mommers711]

I did as Terry said & it said parts of it didn't save because it was full. I
tried your suggestion but it is in newsletter format that has the title
across the top & then two columns & it was all over when I pasted it. I am
afraid to close it down as I don't want to lose it.
I will try to open a new newsletter & try it that way.
Thanks for your help.
If you have anything else let me know.

 

[Mommers711]

I just tried to cut & paste into another newsletter & it did the same thing.
Is this major trouble for ms word or for my computer?
Thanks

 

[Tom ferguson]

OK. Try to create a new document again. This time, turn on the display
of paragraph marks. Next, highlight the entire document _expect_ the
final paragraph mark.

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007

 

[Terry Farrell]

Could you quote the exact error message please.

Two other alternatives: try SaveAs and choose HTML instead of RTF. Close it,
open it and SaveAs Doc again. If that still fails, try opening a blank
document and use Insert, File and see if it brings it across correctly.

Terry