Not enough memory to convert Excel in mail merge

M

mardicar

I am trying to merge an Excel data file into Word and I keep getting the
message that it can't do this because there is not enough memory or disk
space. How much memory is needed? I have 85 GB available from a capacity of
232 GB on an iMac G5 with OSX. The word document is 28 KB and the Excel data
file is 2.7 MB. I have restarted my computer. There are no other
applications open. I have moved the worksheet into a new workbook all by
itself. I don't know what to do next. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
It took a long time to assemble the data and I was looking forward to an
easy merge.
 
P

Peter Jamieson

I'm not very familiar with Mac versions of Office but...

1. Which version of Word/Excel?

2. What sort of "shape" of content does your Excel workbook have (e.g. 1000s
of rows with 10s of columns?) Does it have any data outside the main block?
If so, if you copy /paste the main block into a new workbook and merge from
that, is there an improvement?

3. As an immediate workaround, you may be able to copy/paste your Excel data
into Word and use that as your data source.

Peter Jamieson
 

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