I'd be inclined to turn off fast saving, might be the cause. I guess this is an incremental saving technique, hence : too many edits

>Yes, but digging is not straightforward for Word, I am learning < s >.
>On the other hand, the error started generating reports to MS, so I let it do 5-10 of them.
>
>I had tried re-boots several time, Word97, Word2000 and WordXP.
>
>Strangely, after doing the sequence I described for 4 copy/pastes, the problem has
>gone away and both documents that had problems have now been successfully copy/pasted
>several times in the 'regular' manner.
>
>Your initial message gave me the hope that I had run out of and some ideas to pursue.
>
>Thanks!
>>Jim,
>>
>>You'll have to dig a little further, since imo you are likely to have that again if an 11 page doc is giving trouble
>>
>>
>>>UPDATE:
>>>I finally did get the documents to be copy/pasteable again. I did NOT do the Scandisk/Defrag.
>>>After trying to store onto another HD and failing after that too, I tried copying the stuff
>>>wanted then closing that document, replying that I wanted to keep the copied text. Then I
>>>restarted Word and 'started' the other document. This time the Paste worked!!!
>>>
>>>Thanks Gregory, but those items don't seem to be the problem.
>>>I'm getting this now on a 11 page document.
>>>
>>>I'm going to try another suggestion in your list - ScanDisk/Defrag.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>** PLEASE DO NOT MOVE THIS THREAD **
>>>>>
>>>>>I have a document of only 91 pages and it has been heavily edited. However, I have edited bigger documents more.
>>>>>
>>>>>On this document I consistently get "There are too many edits on the document. The operation will not be complketed. Save your work." when I try to copy/paste within the document.
>>>>>
>>>>>How do I get around this?... I have tried saving to another document, changing Save options to 'fast save' and checked to ensure that change tracking is NOT in effect.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>** PLEASE DO NOT MOVE THIS THREAD **
>>>>
>>>>Jim,
>>>>
>>>>a couple of things to try
>>>>
>>>>(1) turn fast save off
>>>>(2) Delete as many files as you can from your temp folder (Windows\temp or so) see http://search.microsoft.com/default.asp?so=RECCNT&siteid=us&p=1&nq=NEW&qu=There+are+too+many+edits+on+the+document&IntlSearch=&boolean=ALL&ig=1&ig=3&ig=5&ig=7&ig=9&ig=2&ig=4&ig=6&ig=8&ig=10&i=00&i=02&i=04&i=06&i=08&i=01&i=03&i=05&i=07&i=09 point # 4 or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b108249