"There are too many edits in the document. This operation will be incomplete. Save your work."

Anonymous
2016-05-29T12:19:36+00:00

Word 2016 error.

   "There are too many edits in the document. This operation will be incomplete. Save your work."

Apparently this is an antiquated condition based on the answers posted in 2011.

This is 2016. There is nothing in the blank document.

I've been copying information from WEB into Word for recording and reference for years and have never had this problem until today. Tried piecemeal with no success.

Notice that Office 2016 was recently updated and if this feature was reincorporated it's not a good thing unless there is

an override somewhere in Doc Options that can be switched on to ignore this condition?

The user should be in control. If the MCP is listening please don't take it personal.

Thanks.

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Anonymous
2016-06-20T21:11:39+00:00

Hi everyone,

I’m told that his issue is now fixed in the latest Office 2016 updated, which we recently released.

The current version is 16.0.6965.2058. This update contains features in the May feature update described below, plus new security and non-security updates. To find out more, go to our release notes page, and under Channel, click Current.

To get the update immediately, open any Office 2016 app and choose File > Account > Update Options >Update Now. 

Best,

-Erik

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-09-27T01:08:13+00:00

    If this is happening to you too then I'm assuming you're also unable to save as a Word document. However what did work for me was saving as a pdf. What I did to be able to edit the document againwas save as a PDF and then convert the PDF to Word using Word's pdf converter.

    Hope this helps!

    -GE

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-09-27T01:06:31+00:00

    If this is happening to you too then I'm assuming you're also unable to save as a Word document. However what did work for me was saving as a pdf. What I did to be able to edit the document againwas save as a PDF and then convert the PDF to Word using Word's pdf converter.

    Hope this helps!

    -GE

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-03-24T13:16:47+00:00

    I  just got this error for the first time (March 2017, Word for Mac 15.32 with Office 365 subscription, last Word update a few days ago). The document had only been open for an hour or so, but did have some text pasted in from a wiki open in a web-browser window, using the default past options.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-11-03T03:56:44+00:00

    I was using Word 2013 when this happened to me.  It turned out that the cause of the problem was a graph from Excel that had been copied into the Word document.  When I removed the graph, the problem with Word went away.  There were other graphs in the Word document that did not cause this problem, so I am assuming there was some sort of error with the Excel graphic.  However, the error message could not be less helpful.

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