Hi guys,
I’m new in this place. There are some reasons why I still use Office 2010 on several machines. I was wondering if there is any reason that I install Office 32bit version.
Had some trouble with a piece of CRM software that would just accept the 32bit version. Are there any known issues with 64bit Office and Obsidian?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Albrecht
On the surface, it might seem like running 32-bit apps in a 64-bit environment is bad—or less than ideal, anyway. After all, 32-bit apps aren’t taking full advantage of the 64-bit architecture. And it’s true. When possible, running a 64-bit version of the app provides additional security features to apps that are likely to come under attack. And 64-bit apps can access much more memory directly than the 4 GB that 32-bit apps can access.
https://www.howtogeek.com/194119/why-are-most-programs-still-32-bit-on-a-64-bit-version-of-windows/
First of all: Thank you for your answer. This machine will not get under attack 'cause it’s not connected to the internet. However it will have to deal with huge spreadsheets, so your advice is pretty useful to me.
The problem with that mentioned CRM system was that the interface to MS Word wasn’t workin’ with Office 64bit. It wasn’t functioning at all. So my question is also: Are there problems like that with Obsidian. Things like, you can’t link to a Word document or Excel spreadsheed if you have Office 64bit installed?
Obsidian doesn’t offer special features to docx or xlsx files so these files are treated like any other files with the setting Files and links –> Detect all file extensions. Obsidian doesn’t process these files so you can use any files as internal links regardless if your system can open these files. file:///path links are handled by the system.