Microsoft KB Archive/185100

= XL97: "The Disk Is Full" Error Copying Very Large Worksheet =

Article ID: 185100

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q185100



SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows, if you copy a worksheet, Microsoft Excel may stop responding. If you wait, you receive the following error message

The disk is full.

and the worksheet is not copied.



CAUSE
This problem may occur if the following conditions are true:


 * The worksheet you are copying contains a very large amount of information (over a million cells, for example). -and-


 * You are running Microsoft Excel 97 under Microsoft Windows 95.

NOTE: The problem does not occur when you run Microsoft Excel 97 under Microsoft Windows NT. The problem also does not occur when you move a worksheet.



WORKAROUND
If this problem occurs, you can still copy the contents of the worksheet, and then paste them into a new worksheet. To select the entire worksheet, press CTRL+a or CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE or click the Select All button in the upper-left corner of the worksheet.

Note that if you use this method to create a copy of a worksheet, some elements of the worksheet may not be copied, including:


 * Defined names
 * Macros assigned to the worksheet

You may need to manually recreate these items or copy them from the original worksheet. Note that charts copied from one worksheet to another may still refer to the original worksheet.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Excel listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: XL97 win95

Keywords: kbbug kbbug kberrmsg KB185100

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