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    Office 365 sucks!

    I have an annual subscription. The size of Office 365 is just under 1GB. Lately, I have experienced lots of problems with Excel. It has been crushing due to ranging from “No enough memory”, “to consider upgrading to 64 bits” I did not have this issue when I had “office desktop version”.

    Yesterday, I was unable to open excel and when I restart my PC, I was notified of windows upgrade. I know 64 bits had more memory than 32 bits, but lots of applications and adds-in do not like the 64 bits. Does anyone have this experience with office 365?
    FYI, my laptop is an intel 7 with 6GB memory.

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    Re: Office 365 sucks!

    MS Office 2016 Pro Plus loves 64-bit

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    Sandy,
    There are some applications and libraries that do not work with 64 bits. It is the same with most excel's adds-in.

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    Re: Office 365 sucks!

    I use Office 365 32-bit for the same reason, but have not encountered any similar problems. I have an i7 processor, but 16GB of memory.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AB33 View Post
    Sandy,
    There are some applications and libraries that do not work with 64 bits. It is the same with most excel's adds-in.
    so you'll need to write your own libraries and re-write add-ins

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    Sandy - this really isn't at all helpful or informative.

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    Ali,
    Thanks!
    Sandy,
    There is a very well known accounting package called "VT Transaction". This software will not work with excel 64 bits.
    I might be able to write my own library, but not an application.

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    For what it's worth, I always try to ensure that I have as much memory as possible.

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    Re: Office 365 sucks!

    Quote Originally Posted by AliGW View Post
    For what it's worth, I always try to ensure that I have as much memory as possible.
    Ah... I lost my memory long time ago
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    Quote Originally Posted by AB33 View Post
    There is a very well known accounting package called "VT Transaction". This software will not work with excel 64 bits.
    I might be able to write my own library, but not an application.
    As I can see VT Transaction+ works on 64 bits

    but nevermind....

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    No, you are mixing up 64 bits of memory with 64 bits of excel.

    http://www.vtsoftware.co.uk/system/excel32bit.htm

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    Re: Office 365 sucks!

    you can install 32 bit or 64 bit versions
    this is not memory

    but that does not matter if you're against the 64-bit version

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    I've win/office 64 bit and it works properly with all my software (32/64 bits)
    only sometimes I need to switch to the comaptibly 32 bit mode but very rare

    VT Final Accounts has a problem with 64 so maybe it will work in compatible 32-bit mode. who knows?
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    Quote Originally Posted by AlKey View Post
    Ah... I lost my memory long time ago
    I think I have too, AlKey, I cant remember any more though
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    Re: Office 365 sucks!

    Microsoft seems intent on driving their company down the toilet.

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    Re: Office 365 sucks!

    I've enjoyed office 365 especially onedrive.

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    Re: Office 365 sucks!

    It's really not MS' fault. If some third-party add-in doesn't work with newest version.

    While I think 2013 was a debacle... (taking away free add-in PQ & PP)

    I've been using Office 365 for over 2 years now and love it (ProPlus for about a year).

    Co-Authoring feature that replaced Shared Workbook, is working great so far.
    And both PQ and PP are available without ProPlus now (albeit with fewer built in connectors).
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