Word Bookmarks causing 'Insufficient Memory' error.

[Merlin]

Greetings
I am working on a Word Addin that creates many bookmarks in a Word document
as part of its processing.
The first person to seriously use this product is complaining of the
following error message:
'Word has insufficient memory. You will not be able to undo this action once
it is completed. Do you want to continue?'

An internet search found the following Knowledge Base article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q240410/
which states that this is caused by 'too many hidden bookmarks in the
document.'

What I would like to know is if it is only *hidden* bookmarks that cause the
problem, or any kind of bookmark?

Also if there is any kind of Work around.

If Word has a limit to the number of bookmarks it can handle then the whole
premise for our product is ruined!

Thanks
Merlin

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hello Merlin,

From your description, you're developing an office word add-in which will
programmatically create many bookmarks, as some users report that they'll
encounter

"Word has insufficient memory. You will not be able to undo this action
once it is completed. Do you want to continue?"

warning, so you're wondering whether the following kb article also apply
for any kind of bookmark in addition to hidden ones, correct?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q240410/

So far based on my research, I haven't found definite info indicate that
any kind of bookmark will raise this problem. I'll do some further to see
whether there is anything else helpful on this.

I'll update you as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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[Jonathan West]

Greetings
I am working on a Word Addin that creates many bookmarks in a Word
document
as part of its processing.
The first person to seriously use this product is complaining of the
following error message:
'Word has insufficient memory. You will not be able to undo this action
once
it is completed. Do you want to continue?'

An internet search found the following Knowledge Base article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q240410/
which states that this is caused by 'too many hidden bookmarks in the
document.'

What I would like to know is if it is only *hidden* bookmarks that cause
the
problem, or any kind of bookmark?

Also if there is any kind of Work around.

If Word has a limit to the number of bookmarks it can handle then the
whole
premise for our product is ruined!

I'm not aware of any specific limit to the number of bookmarks that can be
inserted into a document.


Quite frankly, I doubt the accuracy of the Knowledgebase article. But the
message you describe is relatively common where you are using automation to
make a very large number of edits to a document. I have come across this
kind of problem with any variety of intensive document editing. You can
avoid these problems by one or more of the following methods.

1. Periodically clearing the Undo stack, by use of the UndoClear method.

2. Saving the document at intervals

3. Saving, closing and re-opening the document before continuing to edit.

It will require some trial-and-error to see which of these options works
best for you and after how many operations you need to repeat them. You may
need to use more than one of them at differeing intervals.

 

[Merlin]

Many Thanks, Jonathan
I'll try those suggestions.
Cheers
Merlin

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hello Merlin,

Have you got further progress on this issue? So far based on my research,
there is no particular limitation on all kinds of bookmark objects in word
document.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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[Johnn]

fyi.. sorry for the spam, using UndoClear and Saving document at intervals as
mentioned in other post by Mr. Jonathan West worked
Thanks
Johnn