hi
technically file size is limited to available resources meaning disk size,
memory, other and you seem to have hit that some way or another. i would
check task manager to see how much memory excel is using as well as the file
plus how applications you have open and how much junk you have running in
the background. may be a time for upgrade.

regards
FSt1

"cphalen" wrote:

Is there a point when an Excel file can get too large for Excel to handle.
We have users that are opening large excel files and they are getting the
following error:

Excel cannot complete this task with available resources. Choose less data
or close other applications.

The file that we are having the most issues with is 409,774 KB.

Thanks in advance for any response you can provide.