Clipboard memory

Copying and pasting from a Word doc to Notepad

[infinitewoman]

I am trying to copy text from a Word document into an HTML document in my Notepad. I get this error message:

Not enough memory available to complete this operation. Quit one or more applications to increase available memory, and then try again.

So far, I have tried shutting down all extranious programs running, a Restart, a total Shutdown and turned the computer back on, I have cleared the clipboard I don't know how many times. I have saved and closed my Word and Notepad but the same thing happens when I try again. My clipboard tells me that I have 12 items on it but I could sit there and hit clear all day and nothing will reduce the number of documents the clipboard thinks it's holding. I've tried the Help menu and it tells me that my clipboard may seem to think it's at it's max RAM.

I can copy and paste from one Word doc to another blank Word doc but when I try to paste to the Notepad I keep getting this error message.

Has anyone else had this problem?

[MonkeeSage]

I don't think it's your system resources if you can do the operation in Word. I think the problem is that notepad is not designed to work with big files and doesn't have good memory handling. There are some pretty good (and not to mention, free) text editors out there; SciTE, Crimson Editor, HAPedit and Context are a few I know of off the top of my head. I think any one of them will probably work.

Jordan

[lorax]

MonkeySage, I think it is system resources. You'll get a "file to big to open with Notepad", or some such, if the file is actually too big for Notepad. ;)

infinitewoman, shutdown and reboot your system and try again. It should come up fine. If it doesn't you probably have a rogue application loading up which is eating up your system resources. Alternatley, it could be your primary drive (C) is full.

[infinitewoman]

Thanks Jordon,

I'm creating a fairly large, linear (not MY idea) web page for a client and I think my Notepad is just full to capacity (never encountered this before). I'm going to get around the problem this time by having larger chunks of info open in their own target window (hence their own .html doc).

Your information has been a great help. I'll investigate these other text editors for next time and hopefully one of them will have a larger memory and allow me to create very large docs and save them as .html's!

Have a great weekend!

[SethCall]

heh have to go wih monkeysage here: its not an issue of system resources at all, rather its an issue with notepad.

Infinitewoman: just for reference, wordpad doesn't have this limitation, that I am aware of. Try it in wordpad instead (its on any windows system)