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• Multi-Threaded Calculation Tip and File Format Converters

  26 May 2006

  I have received a few emails from folks that have downloaded the beta and tried out multi-threaded calculation – thanks, it was great to hear from you. One thing I wanted to point out is that for most workbooks, you will see the maximum improvement in performance the second time you calculate a workbook...
• Quick detour #3: Updates we have made to XLLs

  3 Jan 2006

  In the past few months, I have written a couple of articles ( big grid , multi-threaded calculation ) that prompted comments and questions along the lines of “what about XLLs?” Since the email questions have actually been picking up in frequency (I guess a lot of readers are also XLL authors), I thought...
• Multi-threaded calculation in Excel, or “how calculation can become much faster in Excel 12”

  3 Nov 2005

  One of the things I mentioned in my overview of Excel 12 post in September was that we had done some work to speed up calculation on modern hardware (multi-processor or dual-core chips). I thought I would take a brief break from tables to summarize that work and to see if any readers are interested in...
• The big picture ...

  28 Sep 2005

  Before I carry on digging into the details of the new and improved features in Excel 12, I wanted to make sure everyone had a good sense for the work we’ve done in this version. When we were planning Excel 12, we spent a significant amount of time talking to a wide variety of customers. One theme that...
• Some other numbers ...

  27 Sep 2005

  As part of the Excel team’s work to increase the number of rows and columns in Excel 12, we also increased a number of the other “limits” in the product. This work falls into a two categories. First, we increased a number of limits to support our “big grid” work. These are limits that we increased to...
• Let’s start with some "big" news …

  23 Sep 2005

  Greetings. My name is David Gainer, and I am the Group Program Manager for Microsoft Excel. Starting today, I am joining several other members of the Microsoft Office team in sharing information about the upcoming release of Microsoft Office. Specifically, I am going to be writing about what’s new in...