The Financial Reporter currently only allows you to use Excel 32bit, way outdated version. Sage should update the reporter to utilize the 64 bit version of Excel since it is probably used by most Sage users at this point. Very disappointing that Sage has not updated this functionality.
by: Candice J. | over a year ago | Financial Management
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Sage seems to be dumping Financial Reporter in favour of Sage Intelligence. While Intelligence is a nice product, it is not as user friendly, and out-of-the box does not handle the Financial statements (particularly departmental reporting) as well. For companies that add a lot of new accounts to their GL every month, maintaining Sage Intelligence reports is a time-consuming pain.
Agree entirely. FR is a big selling feature at demo time and can make or break a deal
Users (especially small businesses) prefer using FR above SI. We need to get FR running 64 bit Excel otherwise we are going to start loosing clients that have been with Sage for years!
I couldn't agree more. Clients are very distressed by having to use old software, especially when they have just upgraded to the latest version of Sage 200
This applies also to exporting anything to Excel
Simply lame to not accommodate 64 bit excel in 2020.
32-bit Microsoft Excel has a limitation of accessing only 2 GB of RAM, regardless of the available RAM on the machine. 64-bit Excel can use all available memory. Please update the Sage 300 Financial Reporter and Excel Add-in to support 64-bit versions of Excel, not just 32-bit. We shouldn't have to sacrifice system and processing speed and performance because of this important Sage add-in that we use daily.