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=Microsoft Office Hints and Tips=

MS Word -- Disk Is Full
Leave it to the clever (or is it lazy?) programmers at M$. A user goes to save a MS Word 2000 (only version I've seen this issue) and they get an error that Word can't save the file because the disk is full -- wha?!? The user also sees error messages about too many files being open -- again, another bogus error message that is very misleading and confusing for the end user.

Google says that "Word 2000 + too many files open" points to MS KnowledgeBase entries about corrupt graphic files (the teacher was having the students copy an Excel chart and paste into Word) -- the user should Select All (Cntl + A) and then press F9 function key and Word will check all the file/object links in the document. Other sites mention pasting the external object as an image file using EDIT-->Paste Special and selecting Paste as Image (WMF). As a last resort, the user can save the entire Word file as an RTF (Rich Text Format) file and then open and save again as a Word document file.

Microsoft Products -- f//eel the love and attention that goes into every line of code//. I've been a Word user (not necessarily by choice) since 1986 so I feel that I am pretty familiar with the program. I've also been an [|OpenOffice.org] user for a number of years now and I've pushed the word processor application (Writer) pretty hard during that time. I have never seen signs of such sloppy coding in OOo.