I have seen many similar questions, but I am not sure I have seen a real solution to this problem. I have been able to recreate the problem sometimes, but not always.
I am running Windows XP with Office 2007. The PC is configured with 3.5 GB of RAM. Most of the problems have been in Excel, but I have sometimes had problems in Word and sometimes Outlook. Today I can’t even open Microsoft Explorer to view files on my computer.
At first, I thought this was a security/acccess problem on one of my servers. I would open a .CSV file from the server and not be able to save it in any Excel format. In some cases, it would act like the data was being saved, but other times it would not let me save the file at all. If this happened, I would lose all of my changes to the spreadsheet and would need to reboot to be able to work again.
Other times I could not even open a file and would get an out of resources message. This has also happened in Word and once in Outlook.
I have tried to recreate the problem, but I have not been able to force what I think are the conditions that may have contributed to the problem. One time I thought it was lack of access rights to a server, but I had administrator rights to the directory I needed. Another time I had about 5 active spreadsheets opened when I tried to open a CSV file. I do not know what the conditions are when this happens. When I try to recreate the problem, the software seems to work. There must be something going, but I have not been able to recreate it at will.
Has anyone else had this type of problem? Is there a solution? It appears none of my corporate people have been able to help or have much experience using Offic 2007.