[ms office - 2003] "You are working without a word work file....." error

[adamf]

On one particular machine we are having a problem with editing a word document (only 118kb in size, mainly text with the school logo at the top). When the document is opened the member of staff starts to edit it and all of the sudden word freezes with the following error:

 

You are working without a word work file and memory is nearly full. Save your work.

 

I've googled and found an article about making a registry change

 

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Word\11.0\Options

 

Added a DWORD called CACHESIZE with a decimal value of 512.

 

This doesn't appeared to have solved the problem and I would like to avoid re-installing office or ghosting the machine if possible.

 

Has anybody else seen this?