

If you've turned on AutoSave, turn it off. For instance, if you've used Word's versioning capabilities with the file, turn them off.

You'll also want to make sure that Word features that add to document complexity are turned off. This program will get rid of a lot of other non-essential files and could improve the responsiveness of your system. In most versions of Windows you can find this by navigating (using the Start menu) to All Programs | Accessories | System Tools. If you are still using Word 97, use this page instead: Īfter getting rid of the temporary files, run the Windows Disk Cleanup. You can find more information about Word's use of temporary files at this page in the Knowledge Base: Anything with the TMP extension can be deleted outright anything that starts with a dollar sign can be deleted if it appears that the file is simply a Word document with the dollar sign added as a prefix. Look for anything ending with a TMP file extension or anything that starts with a dollar sign ($). You want to get rid of these they are intended to be temporary, after all. First, get out of Word and do a search (using Windows tools) to locate any temporary files that may be created by Word or by other programs. There are a few things you should try to help narrow down the problem. He's tried chopping it up into smaller files and saving those, but whatever he does he gets the same error response. If David tries to save it without altering it, there is no error response, but it also appears that the document isn't really saved anew (insofar as its Date Modified property isn't updated). If he tries to edit it and save it, he always gets the reply that "The disk is too full or too many files are open." Neither situation is true.

David has a large Word file, approximately 6.3 MB in size.
