Test this by shutting off the antivirus temporarily, or by not having Excel files scanned. In some cases, the AV will need to be removed. Working with large Excel files can use the memory available to the bit Excel application. In any bit application there is a 2-GB limitation.
If your processes need to use more than 2 GB's, then you need to carefully consider moving to Microsoft Excel bit version. The bit version will allow all available physical RAM on the machine to be used. If you are interested in researching bit versions, see bit editions of Office Does the message clear up for some time after you reboot or shut off some of your applications?
That's probably a good sign this is your issue, follow the steps to shut down some of the extra applications running on your computer. How to perform a clean boot in Windows. Excel cannot complete this task with available resources error, Excel If the information in this article did not help resolve the error in Excel, select one of the following options:. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. These styles continue to make the file grow and may eventually cause the "Too many different cell formats" error message in Excel when you save back to older file versions.
Many utilities are available that remove unused styles. As long as you are using an XML-based Excel workbook that is, an. You can find this tool here. Adding lots of shapes in a spreadsheet also requires lots of memory. A shape is defined as any object that sits on the Excel grid.
Some examples are as follows:. Frequently, these objects are copied from webpages or other worksheets and are hidden or are sitting on one another. Frequently, the user is unaware that they are present.
If you continue to experience issues after you remove shapes, you should examine considerations that are not related to formatting.
Conditional formatting can cause the file to grow. This occurs when the conditional formatting in the file is corrupted. You can remove the conditional formatting, as a test to see if the problem is with corruption in the formatting. To remove conditional formatting, follow these steps:.
If removing conditional formatting resolves the issue, you can open the original workbook, remove conditional formatting, and then reapply it. If none of these methods work, you may consider moving to a bit version of Excel, breaking your problem workbook into different workbooks, or contacting Support for additional troubleshooting.
Opening an Excel workbook for the first time in a new version of Excel may take a long time if the workbook contains lots of calculations. To open the workbook for the first time, Excel has to recalculate the workbook and verify the values in the workbook.
For more information, see the following articles:. If the file continues to open slowly after Excel recalculates the file completely and you save the file, move on to method 2. Look through your workbook and examine the kinds of formulas that you are using. Some formulas take lots of memory. If you are seeing the error when performing any of the above actions, it's time to look to determine what is going on in your file. These will be addressed in the sections below.
If you are inserting rows and columns, performing calculations, or copying and pasting and receive the message, it can be tied to formulas having to recalculate. You have a spreadsheet with 1 million formulas on a sheet and you insert a new column. This will force Excel to recalculate all the formulas in the spreadsheet adjusting for the new column that you inserted.
It is very possible, depending on the complexity of your spreadsheet, bitness of Excel, and how the spreadsheet is built, and what formulas are used, that you receive the out of resources error.
Other areas that can cause the memory issues are excess shapes, complex PivotTables, macros, and complex charts with many data points. The following article walks through identifying and fixing these issues. If you are using the feature Shared Workbook. To do this;. Deleting Custom Views doesn't delete anything in the spreadsheet, it does delete the print areas, and filters.
These can easily be reapplied. You might have to set Windows Update to automatically download and install recommended updates. Installing any important, recommended, and optional updates can frequently correct problems by replacing out-of-date files and fixing vulnerabilities.
To install the latest Office updates, click the link specific to your version of Windows and follow the steps in that article. Check the Add-ins that are running, and try disabling them to see if Excel is working properly.
Generally, this error message appears on Excel files that contain complicated formulas, calculations, or external resources. It is clear that this issue is related to the built-in security settings of Excel or Follow the given steps to get rid of this issue:. Once you press the OK and applied the settings then try to open the same Excel file which is showing the error. If this issue is occurring with a particular file then it is sure that it is a file-specific issue.
In case you are still unable to open the file in Microsoft Excel then you have to open the file in CSV file format. To do this, go to the save as option and save the file as a CSV format. After it, try to open the file and check for the issue. This issue generally appears on 32 bit Excel , but sometimes also affects the 64 bit Excel.
To fix this issue you have to set your paging file size to automatic, follow the below-given steps:. After applying the above-given solutions your problem of Excel not enough memory error will easily get resolved. But, if you are encountering any other Excel memory error apart from the errors I have listed above.
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