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Two new computers were purchased earlier this year, with an i3 processor, 4GB RAM, Office 2013, &amp;&nbsp;Windows 7 Pro 64 bit edition.<br />
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On one of these computers, the user randomly receives the following error message when trying to open an existing Excel document:<br />
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&quot;There isn't enough memory to complete this action. Try using less data or closing other applications. To increase memory available, consider using a 64bit version of Excel / Adding memory to your device&quot;.<br />
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However the spread sheets are quite small ( stored on the local server ) and there are few other applications running at the same time. Overall memory usage is quite low when these error messages appear and there are no additional add-in's installed.<br />
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What else could be done to troubleshoot this issue, which seems to be reported quite frequently on-line, without any clear solutions being documented?
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Two new computers were purchased earlier this year, with an i3 processor, 4GB RAM, Office 2013, & Windows 7 Pro 64 bit edition.

On one of these computers, the user randomly receives the following error message when trying to open an existing Excel document:

"There isn't enough memory to complete this action. Try using less data or closing other applications. To increase memory available, consider using a 64bit version of Excel / Adding memory to your device".

However the spread sheets are quite small ( stored on the local server ) and there are few other applications running at the same time. Overall memory usage is quite low when these error messages appear and there are no additional add-in's installed.

What else could be done to troubleshoot this issue, which seems to be reported quite frequently on-line, without any clear solutions being documented?

One user keeps receiving an Excel 2013 'there isn't enogh memory to complete this action' error.

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