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leftnotracks - 16 Mar 2007 21:58 GMT

When I try to save or save as I get the message:

>There are too many files open to access [filename].ppt
>Close some files before you open or save any new ones.

If I try to paste a Word object I get:

>There are too many files open to access [user:directory:filename].ppt
>Close some files before you open or save any new ones.

No other MS Office apps are running.

So I can't do anything unless I Close my one open document, but I
can't save it, so I don't dare close it.

Using PP 2004 on OSX 10.3.9

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Jim Gordon MVP - 17 Mar 2007 06:13 GMT

Hi,

Yours is the first I've noticed pertaining to PowerPoint. This issue has
affected Word in the past.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse_frm/t
hread/11f3ae3cc25ae088/0257cfefeba668d8?lnk=st&q=macintosh+too+many+files+op
en&rnum=1&hl=en#0257cfefeba668d8

Are you getting this message from embedded word documents?

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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> When I try to save or save as I get the message:
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> Using PP 2004 on OSX 10.3.9

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leftnotracks - 19 Mar 2007 18:05 GMT

Well, I had to get going, so I closed without sae and restarted. I
believe the PP document had embedded Word files. But wherther I was
getting the message from those files or from something else, I dunno.
Word was not running, and the message was in response to a Save. I
also could not save a new blank document with no text or embedded
anything.

On Mar 16, 10:13 pm, Jim Gordon MVP <goldke...@WarmerThanWarmMail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
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> MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
> MVP infohttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

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leftnotracks - 19 Mar 2007 20:21 GMT

I can't get anywhere with that link. Perhaps some characters were
stripped when you pasted it in.

> Well, I had to get going, so I closed without sae and restarted. I
> believe the PP document had embedded Word files. But wherther I was
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> > MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
> > MVP infohttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

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Mickey Stevens - 20 Mar 2007 21:09 GMT

Try this link:
<http://snipurl.com/1dj3y>

On 3/19/07 2:21 PM, in article
1174332107.981826.195730@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com, "leftnotracks"

> I can't get anywhere with that link. Perhaps some characters were
> stripped when you pasted it in.
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>>> MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
>>> MVP infohttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

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durnit - 19 Apr 2007 07:00 GMT

Hi,

I had the same problem. I just defragmented mmy harddisk and it saved fine
after that.

> When I try to save or save as I get the message:
>
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> Using PP 2004 on OSX 10.3.9

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Cannot save. Need help ASAFP