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    Memory Needed for Pivot Table

    I'm dealing with a spreadsheet that has around 500,000 rows and 100 columns in excel 2011. I would like to generate pivot table report for the entire sheet, but it says there is not enough memory. My current computer has 8 GB ram. What kind of memory would I need to allow excel to do those kind of calculations?

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    Re: Memory Needed for Pivot Table

    if you're using 32 bit Excel, if I remember correctly, Excel can only utilize up to 4GB of Ram. Do you know how to use MS Access or MS SQL Server?
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    Re: Memory Needed for Pivot Table

    No don't know how to use that stuff, thinking about learning it now that I can't do this function in excel. I think excel 2011 is 64-bit? I'm not positive. Is there any work around on that? Any way I can utilize my full 8 GB?

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    Re: Memory Needed for Pivot Table

    Hello
    Don't know if this can help you.
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211515

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