Microsoft KB Archive/62552

“Insufficient Memory” Message When Linking to Lotus 1-2-3

PSS ID Number: Q62552 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

5.00 5.50 6.00

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= SUMMARY =

When using the Library Link Spreadsheet command in Word 5.00, or the Insert File command in Word version 5.50 an “Insufficient Memory” error message may occur. The error occurs when you try to link a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet without specifying a range.

Word generates this error message because it is trying to load the whole spreadsheet. When it tries to do this, it exceeds its paragraph size limitation of 30K.

To avoid this behavior, enter the range of cells that you want to link into Word, as well as the filename.

Note that Lotus versions 2.x only retain information about non-empty cells when saving to disk. Therefore, a file that uses only two cells (for example, A1 and IV8192) will be approximately 1,450 bytes on disk.

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