This is a common problem in Excel for people who save their files directly to
floppy disks or flash memory sticks. It has to do with the temporary files
Excel creates while you are working with a file. If I understand correctly,
when you save a file, if the save is successful, the original file is deleted
and the temporary file is renamed to the original file's name. The hidden
temporary file is in the same folder as the original, so it's not too hard to
run out of space on a floppy disk. Maybe the same holds true for Word. Always
save to a hard drive, then copy the file to the portable media.

BTW, the Microsoft Office on Yahoo is great for Word questions:
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/mso

Hope this helps,

Hutch

"integreat" wrote:

>
> this is a bit off topic. I come here to ask about a problem in Ms word
> as there are no good MSword forums out there. Maybe some of you have
> experineced this. When using the equation editor in Word any saves of
> your Word document usually result in a "disc is full or too many files
> open" error
>
> Try doing a google search on "disc is full" and you will see what I
> mean.
> I've been trying for the 4 days to narrow down just what triggers this
> error but to no avail. The error seems to be intermittent . A document
> containing equations may be saved to disc with no problem but then a
> save at a later date may invoke the error. Microsoft is aware of this
> bug but they have no eal fixes for it. I sent microsoft an email
> stating that there software is sh*t and would they please fix it They
> have not replied.
>
> Today was the worst day i have ever spent wordprocessing , The
> technique was to write a sentence, do a save, write a sentence, do a
> save ect. I did this to be safe and sure enough after about 1 hour of
> this the computer did a full regurgitation of my document and crashed
> the computer!!
>
> Somethings up in MIcrosoftville and I tore a strip off them in my
> email
>
> Any ideas??
>
>
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