Sometimes, if you're really lucky, programs like MS Word will have a temp file, probably located in the Tr ash, that will have some of your unsaved data. This is a bit more likely to happen if you don't do a hard reboot for some reason. If you seem to have alot of problems with this, you can change your preferences in MS Word to have it prompt you to save your work every 'x' minutes. The way you solve this problem is to select the application from the 'application icon list' in t he rightmost corner of the menu to be sure the application is active and then choose quit from the application's file menu. The mac says there is not enough memory.
Macintoshes can have more than one application launched at time.
For instance, you can have NCSA Telnet and MS Word open at the same time. By quit ting one or more applications, memory is freed up to then do things that you want, like printing. The most efficient way to quit applications is to click on the upper right hand icon in the menu bar and highlight the application you want to quit. This 'br ings up' the application's menu. I touch a key.