Word has insufficient memory.

[angbob]

I try to open a ".mht" file, and before anything else happens I get the message
Word has insufficient memory. You will not be able to undo this action
once it is completed. ..."

The file does open, complete with pictures.

The file's length is 256KB. It's a page from a website.

Task Manager says 309MB physical memory available.
Commit charge total 409MB, peak 1329 MB, peak 476MB.

Using Word 2003 SP2 on XP Home.
Pagefile = 307, 200 KB.
Physical memory = 768 MB.

What memory is insufficient?
Is word unable to allocate sufficient virtual memory? (Is my page file too
small?)
Is physical memory too small?
(Is there a better forum to post this question?)
Regards,
Bob

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Sorry, you’ve landed in a MacWord group. You might get an answer from
the people here who use both Windows and Mac, but you should try asking
your question on the general Word newsgroups. Start here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx

 

[angbob]

Thanks!

The pulldown list for choosing a group in which to post gave me a list of
85,000 discussions, sorted only locally. I suspected "Word" was too easy!

Bob

I try to open a ".mht" file, and before anything else happens I get the message
Word has insufficient memory. You will not be able to undo this action
once it is completed. ..."

....

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

yeah, the list is awful, it's not your fault. We tried to complain, not
sure if it will work.

 

[CyberTaz]

What you have opened is:

An Archived Web Page. When you save a Web page as Web archive, the Web page
saves this information in Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension HTML (MHTML)
format with a .MHT file extension. All relative links in the Web page are
remapped and the embedded content is included in the .MHT file. The absolute
references or hyperlinks on the Web page remain unchanged and the .MHT file
is viewed using Internet Explorer. Note: This file type can become infected
and should be carefully scanned if someone sends you a file with this
extension.

However, Word _should_ be able to reopen the file for further editing and
present a "convert file from..." dialog rather than the error you are
reporting. The fact that you are getting the "...insufficient memory" error
suggests that Word/Office is not fully updated and/or lacks the necessary
filters to convert the correctly file. Therefore, content (such as
hyperlinks) will be broken, formatting may be lost, etc.

That error can be triggered by any number of things - some of which you've
already mentioned - but in this case it's telling you that what Word needs
to do the job "right" isn't available. IOW, it isn't *in memory* & can't be
located for loading.

Get more info from the appropriate PC Word group as Daiya suggested in her
post.