Unable to open Excel attachments from Outlook

Modified on Fri, 26 May 2017 at 03:19 PM

Excel 2013 or 2016 will not open attachments from Outlook.


You get “Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space” error while opening Excel 2013 or 2016 document from local disk or Outlook attachment, here is the working solution.


In Excel go to File | Options | Trust Centre | Trust Centre Settings | Protected View


Untick the three options & click OK.


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