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Copper Contributor

Jul 22, 2022

Excel Error "No more new fonts may be applied. Please close some other documents and try again"

Bother question Excel H&B 2019 : Alert " No more new fonts may be applied" every time edit cell. File size is not that big ( 7xx KB ) but have 16 sheet ( in sheet have many formula and link ) ...

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FloJo21

Copper Contributor

Apr 10, 2023

Methpong I have to say I am absolutely sick of this problem as well.

I have found that when I have 3 Excel documents open at any one time it happens.

Unfortunately because of my workload I always have at least 2 open & this is killing me!!

In the "old days" you used to be able to have multiple documents open without hassle, but now ..??

I am using an Apple MacBook Pro, which I recently updated it because I thought the problem might be because of insufficient RAM or storage. Guess what? It isn't !!

The only thing I can do is to Force Quit on Excel & start again.

All Office & Apple system updates are up to date.

Is it possible that Microsoft could actually listen to their users, because I'm just about ready to throw them out & try another option...

Because so many people have had this problem over the past few years, I would think Microsoft would/should do something about it !!

Dominiko93

Copper Contributor

Jun 29, 2023

Hi, i have had this problem too. I made a quiet huge datebase in excel (4,5mb) , and then i experienced this problem multiple times on 1 document opened from time to time, less often however when i have had opened 2 documents at same time, then the "no new fonts" error make any work impossible to carry out. I dont know why the problem occurs but i think i might have found solution to it, at least cure. What I did with my document is that i simply opened second blank document (alternative) and then i have copied every spreadsheet i needed onto new worksheet by simply left clicking on each spreadsheet on the bottom tab, select "move or copy" and in the menu thick "copy", select to which document it has to be copied - in this case new blank sheet. and press ok. Then entire spreadsheet have been copied into new blank worksheet, you repeat it with every other spreadsheet. you need, then close old bugged document, and enjoy new copied document. I dont know what i just did, but it works for me. It seems like i kind of reset the memory, cache or something, because it dont bug me everytime now. However i do not guarantee if problem will not appear again if you will continue to add new fonts/formulas or formats. Because it definetelly has something to memory.

FloJo21
Copper Contributor
Jun 29, 2023
Hi Dominiko93
I really appreciate your responding to my comment.
Unfortunately I have already copied the sheets I could (& deleted/moved those I could do without) & recreated my file, but I guess I could try it again??
My file is ½ MB, so not as large as yours, but it does have multiple sheets.
I am finding if I have 2 files open at the same time I get this issue & have to Force Quit.
I am VERY frustrated about this issue as it is happening on a very regular basis & am not impressed that MicroSoft haven't fixed it yet. (At least I HOPE they're looking into it??)
Remind me again why I'm paying for a subscription???!! 😞
- Dominiko93
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 29, 2023
  FloJo21 it's frustrating indeed. The error definatelly is related to multiple data, it might be because you have got multiple references to other cells, or I found there are issues also when you got formulas on merged cells, for e.g if you have 6 columns merged into one cell it seems like excel doesn't like it. What you can try, is to copy the sheets onto new document, but copy it the way I explained, not manually by copying and paste. Also you can try to limit the ammount of sheets of possible and divide it into let's say 2 documents. By this way you limit the data beeing processed at 1 time and so chance to bug your document with no fonts error.