Users often needed to install updates to ensure that newer .docx files worked seamlessly, or conversely, that 64-bit add-ins worked properly in Word 2010 x64.
Located under View > Macros > The Thingy (or via the Status Bar): MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 WORD X64 -thethingy-
These quirks earned the software its nickname: not evil, not perfect – just thethingy , an unpredictable tool you learned to work around. Users often needed to install updates to ensure that newer
By 2010, consumer and enterprise desktops were increasingly equipped with 4 GB or more of RAM and 64-bit operating systems. Developers had begun to exploit expanded memory for performance gains, especially in applications handling large files or complex computations. Microsoft offered 64-bit Office builds primarily to support solutions that required access to more than the ~2–3 GB memory limit of 32-bit processes, such as large Word documents with extensive embedded objects, massive mail-merge operations, or heavy use of add-ins that manage large in-memory datasets. Developers had begun to exploit expanded memory for
: Double-click the setup.exe file inside that folder to begin the 64-bit specific installation [3].