Vague "Out of Memory" Question

hahdawg

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Recently, I've been getting a lot of "Out of Memory" messages when I click on cells in Excel 2010. I'm not sure, but it seems to happen most often when I'm working with SharePoint workbooks. When I get the messages, my computer's running fine, and memory usage isn't spiking. The problem seems random--I can't force it to happen. When I close Excel and re-open it, the problem goes away.

Does anyone know what's going on?
 

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Thanks, typically when you have memory leaks, doesn't your computer's perfomance tend to slow down until you restart it?

I can't figure out what's going on, because my computer's running fine when I get the error.
 
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No not to my knowledge because it is the instance of the application that is using the memory. Hence when you terminate the application the memory is released.
 
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Maybe I found what's causing the problem. Suppose that I have a previously saved blank workbook open, and Excel's memory usage is stable at 60,000K in the Task Manager.

If the workbook came from my desktop, and I hit Ctrl+S, excel's memory usage reverts back to 60,000K. But if the workbook came from a SharePoint site, and I hit Ctrl+S, excels memory usage stabilizes to 60,300K. The more I save, the higher the memory usage goes. Is that a memory leak?
 
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Honestly I don't know. It sounds quite peculiar. Is the memory freed if you close the workbook?
 
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