Not enough memory error in Office 97 AND 2000

[milehigh]

When trying to save I get a "not enough memory" error and it lets me save as a rescued document. Problem originally was in Office 97 (Word and Excel).
Upgraded to Office 2000 thinking that that would take care of it and it still shows up.

A reinstall fixes it temporarily but it comes right back.

OS is Win98 SE, system has 256 MB Ram, and the 20 GB hard drive has over 10GB free.

Any ideas?? I'm stumped and the MS web site doesn't specify this problem.

Thanks in advance...

 

[Basilisk]

Milady just did her 100 page Thesis in Word97 (Win98se) and had no such problem w/ 1/4 the memory, so I'm skeptical that Word97's the problem unless you've included some enormous graphics.

On UNIX or Win2K I'd identify the size of all running processes to see if something else was out of control. I've never noticed a tool to measure the size of tasks in W98se (which I use, also) but you should be concerned about some other task. You can use MSCONFIG to start with a minimum of auto-loaded background tasks to eliminate their uses.

Good luck!