Excel 2003

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Carl

When Excel XP was introduced there were noticable
improvements in its performance when running very large
spreadsheets. Excel XP is still quite limited, however,
in that it will utilize only one processor at a time in a
two processor system and it will utilize only 256MB (I
think) of a system's physical memory, regardless of how
much additional memory is available. It is therefore easy
to exhaust the utilized memory resources.

Now the question: Has the version of Excel provided with
MS Office Professional been improved in the resources that
it can utilize.

Thanks,

Carl
 
Hi Carl!

See:
Charles Williams:
http://www.decisionmodels.com/memlimits.htm

Quote>>
For Windows XP you need about 128MB for the operating system and
8-24MB for Excel so:

128 MB RAM is OK for small workbooks.
a.. 196 MB RAM is OK unless you need to open more than about 32MB of
workbooks.
b.. 256 MB RAM works well except when using workbooks containing
large amounts of data.
c.. You will continue to see small speed improvements with 512MB RAM
when using large workbooks, particularly with Excel 2002.
d.. Using Excel 2003 with very large workbooks you can make
effective use of at least 1GB of RAM.
<< End Quote

See also:
http://www.decisionmodels.com/memlimitsc.htm

I haven't found anything that covers dual processor systems.
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Norman Harker MVP (Excel)
Sydney, Australia
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