Disk is full message when saving a word document

When I try to save my word document it says "the disk is full trying to save to Macintosh HD, please clear up some space or try saving to another disk." But I checked and I have 129GB of free space on my hard drive. It says the same thing when I try to save to my USB drive. What should I do?

mananarama1234 wrote:
When I try to save my word document it says "the disk is full trying to save to Macintosh HD, please clear up some space or try saving to another disk."
What version of MS Word?
Where are you trying to save the document?
Is that the exact wording of the message?

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