[BusMac] XL woes

[Richard Edwards]

>Richard wrote:
>>Running XL under 9.1 on an 8500 with 144Meg RAM one is continually
>>beset with  -
>>'Not enough memory' messages from within XL and sometimes other
>>messages of a non co-operative nature
>>Adding more memory to XL has done nothing [even up to 30Meg+], nor
>>has using Virtual memory with an extra meg or an extra lotsa Meg...


quoth wayne

>
>Does the file have a macro or not? That can make a difference. If you have
>other specific error messages, it helps if you can write them out exactly
>as they appear.
>One thing you can try that I found in the MS knowledge base: it seems that
>Excel really wants to have its memory increased in even multiples of the
>minimum. The example they gave is that if the minimum RAM was 6344,
>you should increase it to 12688 or another multiple and not some arbitrary
>value in between. You can find that info here:
>< http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;268410>
>Again if you see other error messages, write them exactly as they appear
>and that may help to find the cause.
>hth,
>
>ingallsw at frontiernet.net

txs Wayne
an interesting little quirk u've uncovered there
very useful to know...
itz my lady that's using the computer...I'll apply ur fix 'n if any 
error messages arise will log them one by one so we can go from 
there...
later
Richard