Adam
I was just going with the number you gave me, 7 megs of memory. It
appears you have more than that, so I'm at a loss as to what to tell you.
Otto
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m wrote in message
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Otto,

Just to make sure we're on the same page, I pressed control-alt-delete,
went
to Task manager, then performance. The memory number I am talking abou is
the physical memory. I'm confused because you said that I have very
little
memory and that I should barely be able to run XP. On my system, I can
sometimes run maybe eight different programs at the same time with no
problem, so I don't know if that is the issue. Also, I tried opening up
two
of my spreadhseets in two separate versions of Excel at the same time and
that seemed to work fine. Does this clarify the situation any more?

Thanks

Adam Bush


"Otto Moehrbach" wrote:

Adam
You have just over 7 megs of memory available. There is virtually
nothing that you can accomplish with that little bit of memory. You must
get more memory. Otto
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m wrote in message
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Otto,

When i hit control-alt-delete and checked the available memory it said
7,294,988 k. I'm kind of wary of changing the memory-resident programs
as
we
run several different softwares which need to be accurate. I tried
hitting
control end in my workbook and it went about five rows past my last
cell
entry, so I assume that's fine. THanks for your help, and any other
ideas
would be graeat.

Thanks

Adam Bush

"Otto Moehrbach" wrote:

Adam
The options available to you are simple to state. One, increase
the
amount of memory in your computer. Two, decrease the size of your
files.
Three, increase the amount of available memory in your computer by
eliminating the number of memory-resident programs running on your
computer.
Let's look at each:
More Memory:
You said you have 7,294,988 kb of memory. Where did you get this
number
from? It sounds extremely large. Did you mean 7,294,988 bytes? That
is
extremely small. If you indeed have only just over 7 megs of memory
you
would not have been able to boot with XP much less open even one of
those
files. I run XP with about 0.75 gigs of memory and have no memory
problems.
How much memory do the other computers have?

More available memory:
Click on Start - Run, type "msconfig" without the quotes and click OK.
Click on the "Startup" tab. All of the programs that are checked are
memory-resident programs and are loaded into memory when the computer
boots.
Most of them are not necessary. I would uncheck all of them and click
OK.
You will get a message box telling you that you have to reboot. Do
so.
Then you will get a message box telling you that you have changed
those
things. Select that you don't want to see that message box anymore
and
the
computer will boot. Play around with several programs that you
normally
use
and see if things are running right. You may need to check a few of
them
and reboot. You shouldn't do any of this if you are apprehensive
about
messing with your computer. It's your call.

Decrease the size of your files:
Excel has a rather nasty way of doing things that results, many times,
in
your file being MUCH larger that it really needs to be. To
demonstrate
this
on a very small scale, open Excel with a new blank file. Make an
entry
in
A1. Select some other cell. Do Ctrl-End. Excel will jump to A1.
This
tells you that Excel is taking A1 to be the last used cell on the
sheet.
That makes for a nice small file. Now make an entry in G20. Select
some
other cell. Again do Ctrl-End. Excel jumps to G20 as the last used
cell.
This makes for a larger file than before. Now delete the entry in
G20.
Now
you and I know that A1 is the last used cell. Do Ctrl-End to see what
Excel
thinks is the last used cell. It's G20. Now this demonstration is on
a
very small scale so you have to think about a couple hundred columns
and
tens of thousands of rows to appreciate how a nominal size file gets
to
be a
huge file.
Try this on a number of sheets in your 2 files and see how much
difference
you find between what you know to be the last used cell and what Excel
takes
to be the last used cell.
Come back with what you find. Otto

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m wrote in message
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Otto,

I've tried this on several computers and the same thing keeps
happening.
Any other ideas?

Thanks

Adam Bush

"Otto Moehrbach" wrote:

You are saying that you have 2 files, each about 10 megs big. You
also
say
you have over 7 gigs of memory. Do you really have over 7 gigs of
memory?
The error you are getting indicates that you don't have enough
available
memory to handle those 2 files. But that indicates that you don't
have
over
7 gigs of memory. Look into making your files smaller. Also look
into
removing the number and size of memory-resident programs that you
have
running. Also look into doing this on someone else's computer.
HTH
Otto
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m wrote in message
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I'm working with two excel workbooks, both about 10,000 kb in
size.
When
I
use one everything works fine but as soon as I open the other I
get
an
Out
of
Memory message, along with some weird printer setup dialogs and
sometimes
a
not enough available resources message. I am using Excel 2003 on
Windows
XP.
As soon as the errors appear Excel will no longer work and is
forced
to
shut
down. I have a 75 gb hard drive with 7,294,988 kb of physical
memory
available. What can I do to get around this? I need to copy
from
one
to
the
other so they need to be open at the same time on the same
computer?
Any
ideas? Please help?

Thanks

Adam Bush