I have Office 2008 for Mac. Prior to yesterday morning, I had no issues with Excel or Word. They are all that I use from Office. I tried to open Excel yesterday and I am getting the message 'not enough memory.' I now get it for both Excel and Word. I don't understand how this can be. I have very few documents saved to Word and Excel. I am experiencing this. I have 16GB of memory on the laptop and the task manager says it's using only 4GB. Opening a small spreadsheet embedded in a PowerPoint presentation should not take 10 GB of memory. Not knowing the inner workings of Excel, I can't say why it worked so long with the extraneous data and then all but crashed. Maybe Excel has a problem with memory management. 31 people found this reply helpful.
Memory (RAM) and storage (hard disk / SSD) are not related to one another.
- Microsoft Excel users will sometimes get a message that says their computer is out of memory, enough system resources to display completely, cannot complete this task with available resources or Excel can not open workbook with available resources. Excel 2007-2019 users tend to see them more than Excel 2003 users.
- It’s not a problem that comes up too often because being built on a Unix foundation, Mac OS X actually has decades of memory management evolution under the hood, but sometimes you can get a program that gets bigger and bigger in memory and causes problems.
That Mac has plenty of available storage. If you are running low on memory Activity Monitor can be used to identify the memory-intensive processes causing that warning.
To learn how to use Activity Monitor please read the Activity Monitor User Guide. For memory usage, refer to View memory usage in Activity Monitor on Mac.
Once you determine the memory-intensive process or processes, a solution can be provided. WIthout that information it is premature to draw any conclusions, but the number one explanation for that warning is having inadvertently installed adware. To learn how to recognize adware so that you do not install it, please read How to install adware - Apple Community.
Jan 1, 2019 7:49 AM
Memory (RAM) and storage (hard disk / SSD) are not related to one another.
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That Mac has plenty of available storage. If you are running low on memory Activity Monitor can be used to identify the memory-intensive processes causing that warning.
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To learn how to use Activity Monitor please read the Activity Monitor User Guide. For memory usage, refer to View memory usage in Activity Monitor on Mac.
Once you determine the memory-intensive process or processes, a solution can be provided. WIthout that information it is premature to draw any conclusions, but the number one explanation for that warning is having inadvertently installed adware. To learn how to recognize adware so that you do not install it, please read How to install adware - Apple Community.
Jan 1, 2019 7:49 AM