Fix: Microsoft Excel Cannot Open Or Save Any More Documents

If you are getting “Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space” error in Excel 2013 and 2016, don’t worry. Because in this tutorial I will help you solve this error.

Fix Microsoft Excel Cannot Open Or Save Any More Documents Because There Is Not Enough Available Memory Or Disk Space
Microsoft Excel Cannot Open Or Save Any More Documents Because There Is Not Enough Available Memory Or Disk Space

How To Fix Microsoft Excel Cannot Open Or Save Any More Documents Because There Is Not Enough Available Memory Or Disk Space In Excel 2013/2016

This guide contains four very simple and easy-to-follow steps:

Step 1. First of all, you open any new document in Excel, then click Options from File Menu.

Fix: Microsoft Excel Cannot Open Or Save Any More Documents

Step 2. Then, in the left pane of Excel Options window shown below, you choose Trust Center. In corresponding right pane, you choose on Trust Center Settings (as picture below)

Fix: Microsoft Excel Cannot Open Or Save Any More Documents

 

Step 3. Under the Trust Center settings, you choose Protected View from the left pane. Then you need to uncheck all options in right pane there (as picture below)

  • Enable Protected View for files originating from the Internet.
  • Enable Protected View for files located in potentially unsafe locations.
  • Enable Protected View for Outlook attachments.

Fix: Microsoft Excel Cannot Open Or Save Any More Documents

Step 4. Finally, you click OK > OK to save changes. Then restart your computer.

Hope this small tutorial would be useful in fixing “Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space” error in Excel 2013 and 2016. If you have any other Windows related issues you can check for the solution in my Windows fix section. Thank you reading it.