Mac Increase Memory For Excel

Causes of out of memory in Microsoft Excel. Use of Excel workbooks created on a Mac machine can cause problems. They are supposed to be in.

You will likely be unaware of your Mac's virtual memory (VM) until you find that its performance has slowed to a crawl. This is a temporary memory reserve, from which a Mac's Random Access Memory (RAM) borrows to perform operations. RAM is fast physical memory.

VM is much slower swappable memory, located on a disk drive. When needed, a Mac will dynamically allocate additional virtual memory, and you can do little to tune VM allocation. However, keep in mind that a Mac uses free disk space as virtual memory, so a full boot disk can cause problems.