Comments on: Chart Point Limits in Excel 2010

By: DaleW

DaleW — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:48:57 +0000

Jon,

Given that Excel 2003 can only utilize 1 GB of memory, and Excel 2007 can only utilize 2 GB of memory, but Excel 2010 can utilize (in theory) 8000 GB of memory in its 64-bit version . . . is it almost time for power users (or their employers) to invest in a new computer with a 64-bit OS and 6 GB or more of RAM for our bigger spreadsheets?

Dale

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:58:21 +0000

Excel 2010 is only available now to beta testers and reviewers.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:58:46 +0000

Where does one obtain Excel 2010? Please email me if you know. aka_jim@ymail.com.

THANKS !!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:29:55 +0000

I have used 32 bit versions of 2010 TP and 2003 SP3 on a laptop with around 1.5MB of RAM running 32 bit Windows XP SP3.

By: Peder Schmedling

Peder Schmedling — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:35:19 +0000

Interesting post. According to the below blog-entry on the Microsoft Excel Team blog, the number of points per data series is limited by the available memory on the machine..

http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2009/08/25/more-charting-enhancements-in-excel-2010.aspx

What setup did you test this on?
(OS, 32/64bit, RAM installed?)

A 64bit setup should be able to address an enormous amount of memory, but I don’t know what the memory manager in post-2003 versions of Excel can cope with..

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:01:22 +0000

In my old job in a laboratory, I was able to produce very high resolution charts with excel of gamma ray spectra of Uranium powders.

Getting the data into excel was tedious, but the quality of the chart was great. I used the thinnest line possible. This was back in the days of 20 Mhz 386 machines being “state of the art”.

Spectral analysis may be a venue for these huge data sets.