Microsoft KB Archive/44646

Word Err Msg: Not Enough Room on Menu; Limit of 199 Items

PSS ID Number: Q44646 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SUMMARY =

You can add up to 199 commands to any one menu in Microsoft Word version 4.00. In other applications, however, you may be able to have more; the most common being more than 200 fonts on the Font menu. If you start Word when more than 199 fonts are available, the following error message is presented:

Not enough room on Menu

This message appears once for each item over 199 as Word attempts to add it to the menu. To work around this limitation, go through this error message for each item over 199 one time, then use the Commands command to reassign the unadded items to another menu.

In Word for the Macintosh versions 5.0 and 5.1, the number of items that can appear in a menu is limited to 250.

= MORE INFORMATION =

This limitation exists to optimize the speed of Word’s own Menu Manager. This design concept was based on the idea that most users never need more than 199 items on one menu.

To assign those items that do not fit on the default menu to the Work menu, do the following:


 * 1) From the Edit menu, choose Commands.
 * 2) Press the F key and select the Font Name command. Note that above the Menu group, a list of all available fonts appears, with a diamond beside every font name that is currently assigned to the Font menu.
 * 3) Select the first font name that does not have a diamond beside it.
 * 4) From the Menu list, choose Work.
 * 5) Click the Add button under the Menu list.
 * 6) Repeat steps 3-5 for each font name that does not have a diamond beside it.

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