I have to do massive amounts of mail merging for my job, and recently (last two weeks or so) Microsoft word won't allow me to do a mail merge that has more than 3 or so files that need to be merged. Everytime that I try to "Open Data Source" it says that "There is not enough memory or disk space to convert this document"

I thought that maybe it was like a PC where if you had too many applications running virtual memory got low (at least I think that's what it was) so if you restarted the computer, you should be good to go.... Well I've tried restarting multiple times, even tried re-installing the Word suite, and no luck.

Any ideas on how I get this to start working properly so that I can do my damned job.

thnx

7/31/2009 2:55:45 PM

microsoft office for mac is garbage, unfortunately. you can either struggle to get it working on the mac or else do it on a PC if available or you could run Windows and Office for Windows on your mac by either using a virtual machine (with Parallels for Fusion or something) or by dual booting with Boot Camp

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7/31/2009 3:15:07 PM

boot camp it.

7/31/2009 4:34:25 PM

my guess is that you are out of disk space.

have you checked the hard drive to see how much available disk space you actually have?

7/31/2009 4:36:56 PM

they just released SP2 for Office for Mac. make sure you get that, it made it a lot faster.

7/31/2009 5:10:51 PM

yeah, the SP2 speed increases actually made it ok for me to set Mac Office 2008 as the default app to open Word and Excel docs, instead of Windows Office 2003 running in VMWare Fusion, which I keep running all the time, in Unity mode. Believe it or not, opening Word/Excel 2003 in Fusion is still faster than opening Mac Word/Excel 2008, but now, 2008 SP2 is at least tolerable.

7/31/2009 5:19:02 PM

I'll check out the download.... I don't have office 2008 - mainly because this is a work computer and I don't have the $150 to upgrade myself to the new office suite

and unfortunately i don't know how to check how much available disk space i have on my computer. unfortunately i've always been a PC person - so switching over to a Mac has had it's fair share of problems.

7/31/2009 6:56:37 PM

Quote :

"Control or right click the MacintoshHD icon on your Desktop. Click "Get Info". Under the General tab you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure there is at least 10% available disk space, 15% is better. "

Unlike Windows, you run out of space on a Mac loooong before your disk is actually "full".

7/31/2009 7:19:08 PM

Quote :

"microsoft office for mac is garbage, unfortunately."

also,

Quote :

"Unlike Windows, you run out of space on a Mac loooong before your disk is actually "full"."

wat

7/31/2009 7:29:45 PM

i went to the genius bar and he explained to me that when i uninstalled the 2004 suite to reinstall it (it kept crashing on me last month) that the uninstall (which is pretty crappy apparently) left some of the old bad stuff on there. so in using it the past few weeks a lot it's found the old crappy stuff and that's what is fucking me over

so he told me to do the reinstalled of the operating system where i archive and something so that it doesnt delete my data just reinstalls that. and then reinstall microsoft suite again...

yay

7/31/2009 8:12:25 PM

On the bottom of every Finder window, it lists the available disk space of the current drive.

7/31/2009 8:42:14 PM

yea he checked that when i went in, he said that i have PLENTY of space....

7/31/2009 8:47:47 PM

^^^http://www.appzapper.com/

8/1/2009 12:52:36 PM

^ http://freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/ is free and does the same thing

and yeah, regarding free space on the Mac, it tells you at the bottom of every finder window. But data in the Trash are counted as used, so you have to empty your trash to free up space sometimes. In your case, though, it sounds like a software problem rather than not actually having space

8/1/2009 6:16:28 PM