Unable to save large word document

[Guest]

After working on a large word document (8 MEG) for several hours when I tried to save the document I got the message insufficient disk space save to another media. I know this was not true but I then tried saving to an empty ZIP drive and then to a Lexar jump drive but got the same message. I tried clearing the clipboard thinking this may be part of the problem but word would not let me do that. I finally gave up and lost my work. Is there a work around for this? Luckily I had saved once during my work session so I only lost my work back to that point

The word document is this large because it contains a number of pasted in pictures and diagrams

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's always iffy to save to any type of removable media. Can you save to the
HD, then copy to the removable drive?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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After working on a large word document (8 MEG) for several hours when I

tried to save the document I got the message insufficient disk space save to
another media. I know this was not true but I then tried saving to an empty
ZIP drive and then to a Lexar jump drive but got the same message. I tried
clearing the clipboard thinking this may be part of the problem but word
would not let me do that. I finally gave up and lost my work. Is there a
work around for this? Luckily I had saved once during my work session so I
only lost my work back to that point.

 

[Guest]

I originally tried to save to the hard drive and that is when it gave me the disk full message. My hard drive is not full. I have approximately 6 Gig free space on my hard drive. I then tried to save to the ZiP drive and Lexar Jump drive in desperation.

----- Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: -----

It's always iffy to save to any type of removable media. Can you save to the
HD, then copy to the removable drive?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

After working on a large word document (8 MEG) for several hours when I

tried to save the document I got the message insufficient disk space save to
another media. I know this was not true but I then tried saving to an empty
ZIP drive and then to a Lexar jump drive but got the same message. I tried
clearing the clipboard thinking this may be part of the problem but word
would not let me do that. I finally gave up and lost my work. Is there a
work around for this? Luckily I had saved once during my work session so I
only lost my work back to that point.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Okay. The "disk full" message is almost always erroneous and indicates some
other problem with the document, though I don't know offhand what it might
be in this case. Sorry.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I originally tried to save to the hard drive and that is when it gave me

the disk full message. My hard drive is not full. I have approximately 6
Gig free space on my hard drive. I then tried to save to the ZiP drive and
Lexar Jump drive in desperation.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Maybe the document is corrupt?

The first way to check for a corrupt document is to
copy the entire thing, *excluding* the last paragraph mark, into a new
document. That last paragraph mark holds a lot of information which can get
corrupted, and copying the text into a document with a fresh one keeps your
formatting, but can fix some glitches.

A paragraph mark is a gray ¶. Click on ¶ on the standard toolbar to show
nonprinting characters, including paragraph marks.

See this link for further info:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

DM