Links between Excel/Word. Computer memory problem

[katie1343]

I hope it is okay for me to post this here, because my problem involves Word and my computer memory as well as Excel.

Can anyone tell me if having a link between Excel/Word uses up a lot of memory?

I have a word document with many links to an excel document. I really want to continue to use these links and I want to be able to add many more. But at this point I can no longer save the word document because I get an error message saying that the hard drive is full. Here is the message:

The disk is full trying to write to “Macintosh HD”. Free some space on this drive, or save the document to another disk. Try one or more of the following: *Close any unneeded documents, programs, and windows. *Save the document on another disk.

My computer is just over a month old. I have 2 GB memory and a 750 GB hard drive. The Word document is 580 KB and the Excel document is 5.5 MB. And I only have excel and word open when I get this message.

I really need both of these files, and the Word document will get much bigger as I work on it. If I get an external hard drive and use that with these files, will I be able to save them there?

Thank you for any advice

[Leith Ross]

Hello katie1343,

This sounds more like a Windows affliction than a MAC problem. When this happens in Windows is due to low resources, not low RAM or disk drive storage. Windows resources are special memory areas used by the system for holding drivers, windows, printer documents, etc. The new Windows systems that use the NT File System (NTFS) are not prone to this problem. Not be an expert on MACs, I really say where the problem is. You should look for a MAC specific news group. You will probably find an answer there.

Sincerely,
Leith Ross

[katie1343]

Thanks for your reply . I did post on a Mac Forum. Among other suggestions, I was directed to this article:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DiskFullError.html

It does seem fairly likely to me that this is a possible cause of the problem. Because, as I understand it, the links I am using would probably be temporary files.

Hopefully this will work!