Hi
We looking into upgrading our office to 2010 and we have user who has windows 7 64 bit and is after 64 bit office has use so large Excel spreadsheets for number crunching.
Question is can user's using 32bit office 2010 open an excel spreadsheet saved in 64 bit or would use select save as and have change file type and if so is there one availble to save it for 32 bit version?
The spreadsheet data files are the same whether running 32 or 64-bit. The only concern I see is that the 64-bit user may be able to create a spreadsheet large enough that a 32-bit user couldn't access because 64-bit can have more RAM. Not sure if Excel is capable of handling that large of a spreadsheet but it's the only issue I can think of.
System Manufacturer/Model Number Home Built, Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop OS Win 7 Ultimate (64-bit), Win 7 Pro (32-bit) CPU 3.4Ghz 3770K i7, 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo Motherboard Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H, Dell Memory 8G, 3G Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 5770, Mobile Intel 965 Sound Card High Definition Audio (Built-in to mobo) Monitor(s) Displays Dell 2409W 24" Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard IBM Model M - used continuously since 1986 Mouse Microsoft PSU Antec Case Antec 100 Cooling CM 212+ Hard Drives 128G SSD OS; 1.5T & 2T Data on Desktop, 320G for laptop Internet Speed 1.5M down 1.2M up :-( Other Info Also have an Acer Aspire netbook, a home-built AMD Dual core (Minecraft server) and home-built Pent 4 all running Win 7. Also have various machines running XP, Win Server 2K, Win Server 2003, Linux and DOS. I think I have a problem...
MS itself advises sticking to 32 bit Office 2010, unless you need to use mammoth sized worksheets greater than 2 gb. See this article, it has several nice links.