Microsoft Word 2004 message "Disk Full, Can't Write to this Drive"

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Dave:

Yep. That's what I feared.

OK, well the Microsoft response was fairly definitive They changed to
an open XML file format across the whole of Microsoft Office in the next
versions.

Changing the underlying file format of all of the Microsoft Office
applications is an astonishingly huge task. The reason they did it is that
the old binary formats were simply too fragile to cram any more strange
pieces into.

The formats were designed for speed and efficiency back in the days when 100
MHz was a fast computer and 8 MB was a lot of memory. They did that job
well. But now, when 2GHz is a "slow" CPU and "1GB" is "barely enough"
memory, they have the opportunity to go for a format that is smaller, more
rugged, and more easily extended.

One of the side benefits is that it should fix the Corrupt Equations
problem, along with the Trashed Tracked Changes problem and the Munged
Master Documents problem. Oh, and it occupies between half and a quarter of
the disk space

Cheers

While troubleshooting another problem that I have linked to MathType, I
found this link:

http://www.dessci.com/en/support/support/tsn/TSN64.htm

One act that brings them up is cutting and pasting equations directly into a
Word document (which I've done) instead of using the MathType editor to do
it.

In the end, after providing extensive information on how to work around the
problem, Design Science points out that, ultimately:

"Only Microsoft can address this problem with Microsoft Word. We encourage
all users who experience this problem to report it to Microsoft so that they
can appreciate the need to devote additional programming resources to
addressing it. While we have reported this problem to them and they address
it in their Knowledge Base articles, it is important that their customers
continue to report their experience of this problem so that Microsoft can
appreciate how widespread it is."

So there ya have it.

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[Dave Minerath]

It will be interesting to see how long it takes for the next version for
Mac. BTW, anybody hear anything on that?

I found a workaround that will work in place of disabling MathType before
every print job; view the preview from the FILE --> PRINT menu (not FILE -->
PRINT PREVIEW) so that you are really printing from the OS X Preview app.
You can also print to PDF and print that (essentially the same as printing
from Preview) and the page numbers will be correct.

It's almost enough to get me to fina way to make MathType work with
OpenOffice.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Dave:

It will be interesting to see how long it takes for the next version for
Mac. BTW, anybody hear anything on that?

You want the date? Well, it's that time of the year when I start with my
oh-so-cute "Those who know are not allowed to tell us, and those who tell
us, don't know."

My "guess" (and that's all it is) is "late next year". Anyone else want a
ticket in our favourite sweepstake?

I found a workaround that will work in place of disabling MathType before
every print job; view the preview from the FILE --> PRINT menu (not FILE -->
PRINT PREVIEW) so that you are really printing from the OS X Preview app.
You can also print to PDF and print that (essentially the same as printing
from Preview) and the page numbers will be correct.

That's interesting. Anything to do with File>Print or File>Print Preview
involves a call to the OS X Print subsystem. Word does not attempt to make
up its own Print displays, it calls the system. So it's strange that a call
passed one way works and the other way doesn't.

The Word testers are regularly lurking in here: they will find that quite
interesting. As will Bob Matthews from Design Science, who is also a
regular and welcome guest here...

It's almost enough to get me to fina way to make MathType work with
OpenOffice.

Now, if you had Bob's phone number ...

Cheers
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[Beth Rosengard]

Sure, I'll take one . I would guess not until late spring 2008 (but I
hope I'm wrong ­ 2007 would be nice!).

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P.S. to Dave: We really don't have a clue except that it will certainly be
some months after Office 2007 for Windows.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Good one, Beth!

And just privately, don't tell anyone you really meant spring down here in
the southern hemisphere. That gives another 6 months! ;-)

Cheers,
Clive
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[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

How about 2018 if ever?

Good one, Beth!

And just privately, don't tell anyone you really meant spring down here in
the southern hemisphere. That gives another 6 months! ;-)

Cheers,
Clive
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