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Windows and Excel Versions Compatibility

 

Windows Compatibility

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Excel Compatibility

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Although inspector text works with 32-bit Excel 2010, it will need to be updated for 64-bit Excel 2010.

 

 

Is 32-bit Excel going away???

Someday, but it's hard to guess when. There are two clues, though:

  1. Only one version of Excel was available in both 16-bit and 32-bit versions. That was Excel 5.0, in 1994 (16-bit) and 1995 (32-bit, called "Excel 5.0 for Windows NT". That clue by itself might suggest that Excel 2010 will be the only version available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, with future versions available in only 64-bit. However:
  2. No mainstream version of Windows was available in both 16-bit and 32-bit versions. Mainstream versions of Windows went straight from 16-bit Windows 3.1x to 32-bit Windows 95. But we are now on the third mainstream version of Windows to be available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions -- Windows XP, Windows Vista, and now Windows 7. And, after recent media confusion about a statement from Microsoft that no more 32-bit server versions of Windows would be made, Microsoft has clarified that there are no plans to discontinue mainstream 32-bit versions of Windows soon. That suggests we might see at least one more 32-bit mainstream version of Windows after Windows 7.

Comparing the transitions to 32-bit Windows and to 64-bit Windows, to the transitions to 32-bit Excel and to 64-bit Excel, suggests that the transition to 64-bit Excel is likely to see several future versions of Excel available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

But anything could happen. I would not be at all surprised if Excel 2010 turned out to be the last version of Excel available in 32-bit.

 

 

 

 

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