Question

I am running Word 2003.

I have a Word Document, from which I run a macro that opens other Word Documents and preforms tasks on them before saving and closing them.

Because of the number of changes I keep hitting the ‘Word has insufficent memory. You will not be able to undo this action once it is completed. Do you want to continue?‘ prompt.

I have ‘Googled’ this error and haven’t found anything other than the following which doesn’t seem to work on this:

• Application.DisplayAlerts = False
• Application.DisplayAlerts =
wdAlertsNone

I think it may be because the code applies to the Document running the macro, not the document the macro is processing.

The below code is a stripped down version of the code I am using. All I have removed is some logging functions.

Function open_word_file(file_name)

    Call wd_backup_current_file_first(file_name) ' backup the current file - so that if damage is done, it can be undone.

    Documents.Open FileName:=file_name, ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:=False, AddToRecentFiles:=False, PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, WritePasswordDocument:="", WritePasswordTemplate:="", Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto, XMLTransform:=""


    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
    'Application.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone



    '<do_work>
    Call do_something_with_the_opened_file
    '</do_work>

    ActiveDocument.Save ' save the changes
    ActiveDocument.Close
End Function

Answer 1

After a lot of trial and error, it was the undo buffer that was causing issue.

I put the following line within the loops that were processing the file and the message was no longer shown.

ActiveDocument.UndoClear