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- From: robertd@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Robert Davies)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: Excel 4.0 Out of Memory/Preview
- Message-ID: <C1FH45.G4L@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:02:28 GMT
- Article-I.D.: comp.C1FH45.G4L
- References: <1993Jan25.154010.15781@rzu-news.unizh.ch>
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- Organization: Victoria University of Wellington
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- In article <1993Jan25.154010.15781@rzu-news.unizh.ch> pschneid@rzu.unizh.ch () writes:
- >A friend of mine with no Net access asked me about a problem with
- >Excel 4.0 to which I have no answer since i'm not a windows techie:
- > Quite often when he tries to do a print preview of a multi-page
- >worksheet containing some diagrams, he gets an "out of memory"
- >message (it is German "Ungenugender Speicherplatz) when he wants
- >to look at another page. It is really annoying, because after the
- >first time he asked me I just told him to get more memory. He
- >now has 8 MB of RAM in a 386DX, 40Mhz, running windows 3.1 with
- >Excel as the sole application. System resources are usu 75% free
- >when the error occurs, there is also more than 12 MB free on disk.
- >....
- I also get this problem and so does a friend. And I have 12 megs
- of memory on a 486. Windows has to be restarted to get it to go
- again.
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- The local Microsoft agent wasn't much use.
-
- >Any kind of help is appreciated.
- Indeed it is.
-
- Robert
-