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Saving Documents in Microsoft Word 97

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by kennygollinger

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Every time I try to save a Word 97 document to a local drive or network drive, or floppy it says that the disk is out of space. Also says try to close any open programs even when it's the only program open. One time I was using Viso inside Word and the same error occurs. It just won't let me save. I have 256mb memory and 700mhz PIII and atleast 600MB free on HD. Is there a quick fix??

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by shmaltz

You did not say what OS, I assume win9x/NT on a network and you do not have the problem when you try to save to win9x locally only over the network.
This problem happens b/c the user saving the document dosnt have delete permission on a share or ona NTFS file format.
Also apply sr2 to you office 97

by lbarclay

I have seen this happen when the windows\temp directory has a large amount of files in it. You might try clearing the temp directory before your next attempt to save a document.

by cmurphy-mcse

I have had this happen to one of my users also, I too had plenty of disk space available on the network drive. He was trying to save something in visio and he would type "filename.vsd". It had given him that same error, not enough disk space, all I did was take the ".vsd" out of the filename and it saved fine. The program automatically puts the extension on the end of the filename if the user types it it won't recognize what the filename is and gives you that error. Hope that helps!!

by frank

This is a known bug of word 97. Install the service packs for it and then it will never happen again ! A quick solution is to copy the whole text then closing word. Open word again, paste the text and then save !

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