Powerpoint Slide Embedding

[bigtsez]

Hello,

Everytime I try to embed a "Microsoft Powerpoint Slide Object" into one of my Word 2008 Files through the "Paste Special" command, I just get the error message "There is Insufficient Memory. Save the Document Now." Then nothing gets pasted in.

Considering that I'm running off of a newly purchased MacBook (2.2 GHz) w/ 4 GB RAM (i.e. maxed out), is this a software conflict? This still occurs even if I kill every other program on the computer.

I can't add more memory than this thing already has, if I understand it correctly...

 

[John McGhie]

That's a misleading error message.

What it really means is "I can't read this document, save it immediately so
I can attempt to repair it."

The software developer who wrote the code thought that the most likely
reason for a document to get into that condition would be if you ran out of
memory.

These days, it is much much more likely that the code within the document is
damaged.

Which format are you using to save the document? The newest format, .docx,
was invented precisely to try to avoid these problems.

Which OS are you using? 4GB of memory is plenty, you will be relieved to
hear 1GB is the lower limit for Office 2008.

Tell me a bit more about what's going on: I think we're going to have to
de-corrupt that document, and I suspect that Maggie's technique won't work
on that one.

Cheers

Hello,

Everytime I try to embed a "Microsoft Powerpoint Slide Object" into one of my
Word 2008 Files through the "Paste Special" command, I just get the error
message "There is Insufficient Memory. Save the Document Now." Then nothing
gets pasted in.

Considering that I'm running off of a newly purchased MacBook (2.2 GHz) w/ 4
GB RAM (i.e. maxed out), is this a software conflict? This still occurs even
if I kill every other program on the computer.

I can't add more memory than this thing already has, if I understand it
correctly...

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[bigtsez]

Thanks John,

I'm running on OSX 10.5.1 (Leopard).

I've been saving the file as a Word 2004 document (.doc), because I will probably need to incorporate Endnote at some point, and Endnote is not compatible with the new Word 2008.

I've tried saving the file as a .docx, but the problem persists.

How would I "de-corrupt" the document?

- B

 

[John McGhie]

{Sigh} This sounds like a compatibility problem.

If you past a PPT 2008 slide into a document running in Compatibility Mode
(2004 .doc) Word down-converts it.

If you then re-open in 2008, it up-converts it again, etc.

It's messy: a .doc file will stand a very limited amount of that before it
corrupts, and then this is what you get.

I strongly suggest that you work in 2008 .docx, and do not down-convert
unless you have to. There will be a new version of EndNote out in a few
months that should work in 2008.

As a rule, "Stay in the Native format for the application you are using. Do
not convert unless you HAVE to." And put the EndNotes in LAST, right before
you print, while working in a COPY. Because tales of woe as a result of
inserting EndNotes are almost guaranteed until they get the bugs out

In the meantime, you will need to put those documents right...

1) Create a new blank .docx document and save it

2) Make a copy of the bad document

3) Open the copy and delete all the pictures/slides etc, save, and close.

4) Re-open the cleaned copy

5) Carefully copy all EXCEPT the last paragraph mark

6) Paste into the new .docx and save.

7) Re-insert the slides from 2008.

Sorry: I don't care what Microsoft would lead you to believe, you cannot
back-and-forth between .doc and .docx, nor can you work in .doc in 2008 for
long before things get a bit frayed.

It's save enough in text-only documents, but not in complex work such as you
are doing.

Hope this helps

Thanks John,

I'm running on OSX 10.5.1 (Leopard).

I've been saving the file as a Word 2004 document (.doc), because I will
probably need to incorporate Endnote at some point, and Endnote is not
compatible with the new Word 2008.

I've tried saving the file as a .docx, but the problem persists.

How would I "de-corrupt" the document?

- B

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[bigtsez]

John,

Thanks a lot; I've noticed the corruption issue, but I thought it was a one-time thing.

This is a nightmare; I bought this computer and this new software to facilitate my thesis writing, and it's causing me a ton of trouble.

I don't think I can hold out much longer without Endnote. These compatibility issues certainly exacerbate the problem. It's likely that I will just down convert one time, switch back to Word 2004, and write my thesis there (despite having to run over Rosetta...). Otherwise, this may be more trouble than it's worth.

 

[John McGhie]

Yes, I suspect that's what I would do

Cheers

John,

Thanks a lot; I've noticed the corruption issue, but I thought it was a
one-time thing.

This is a nightmare; I bought this computer and this new software to
facilitate my thesis writing, and it's causing me a ton of trouble.

I don't think I can hold out much longer without Endnote. These compatibility
issues certainly exacerbate the problem. It's likely that I will just down
convert one time, switch back to Word 2004, and write my thesis there (despite
having to run over Rosetta...). Otherwise, this may be more trouble than it's
worth.

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50