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Friday, May 26, 2006 4:14 PM

Multi-Threaded Calculation Tip and File Format Converters

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
Posted by David Gainer | 8 Comments
Tuesday, January 03, 2006 2:48 PM

Quick detour #3: Updates we have made to XLLs

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
Posted by David Gainer | 21 Comments
Thursday, November 03, 2005 2:21 PM

Multi-threaded calculation in Excel, or “how calculation can become much faster in Excel 12”

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
Posted by David Gainer | 14 Comments
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:22 PM

The big picture ...

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
Posted by David Gainer | 18 Comments
Monday, September 26, 2005 10:17 PM

Some other numbers ...

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
Posted by David Gainer | 40 Comments
Friday, September 23, 2005 7:21 AM

Let’s start with some "big" news …

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,
Posted by David Gainer | 38 Comments
 
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