Excel for mac error message

Antipasti · 14 Mar 2016 at 19:40

Hi,

When using Excel for Mac 2016, if I open a file that is small (7.5mb) and try to do simple tasks, like delete a row, I get an error message "Not enough memory".

My macbook is i5 and 8gb so its no way stressed.

Has anyone experienced this before and found a way around it?

Thanks

Caged · 14 Mar 2016 at 20:32

7.5MB is a pretty reasonable size for an Excel file. Is it full of crap or are there a million empty rows at the bottom of it?

Antipasti · 14 Mar 2016 at 20:55

There are empty rows at the bottom, but there would be if you opened a blank excel document.

I can open the file in Numbers and its fine. Its just I don't like numbers, and when converting back to excel file, it messes the file up.

SentineL-X · 15 Mar 2016 at 13:27

I think I had this issue before, it had something to do with illegal characters in the workbook name.

Try renaming it to 'test' and try opening it again.