Microsoft KB Archive/128649

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MPRJ4: Button on Microsoft Toolbar Does Not Start Application

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Q128649

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Project for Windows, version 4.0
 * Microsoft Project for the Macintosh, version 4.0

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SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Project, when you click a button on the Microsoft toolbar, your computer may beep, and the application associated with that button may not start.

NOTE: You do not receive an error message indicating why the application did not start.

CAUSE
This behavior may be cause by one of the following:

  On the Macintosh, when you do not have enough memory available on your computer to start the application. In this case, you do not receive an error message indicating why the application did not start.

Normally, when you start an application from the Finder when you do not have enough memory available to run the application, you receive an error message similar to the following

There is not enough memory to run

where is the application that you are trying to run.  The application has not been installed on the computer, or the path to the application can't be found.

WORKAROUND
To start an application while in the low memory situation, you must close an application that is currently running to free up enough memory to run the Microsoft application.

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION
Additionally, if you click a button from the Microsoft Toolbar in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel, you receive one of the following error messages if there is not enough available memory to start the application:

Word could not locate or start ' '

Cannot run ' '. Either you are out of memory, or the application is missing.