Ryans ignorant comment is sadly typical of people these days who feel they have the right to demand things for free.

You have put a heck of a lot of work into asap and I for one am very greatful, then, on top of this, you give us LUCKY people a free version.

People – show your gratitude, the coders behind asap deserve better respect.

Thank you for your email. I'm sorry to read your disappointment.
As written above it costs a lot of time and money to reprogram the entire program to create a special version of ASAP Utilities for the 64-bit edition of Excel 2010. Furthermore this 64-bit version is currently used by very few people. Most people that I have spoken too have successfully replaced their 64-bit Office 2010 installation by the 32-bit Office 2010 installation and didn't have any regrets.

There are several workarounds to still use ASAP Utilities while still having the 64-bit Excel 2010 installed on your computer.
As a workaround you can also install Excel 2003 or 2007 on your computer to use ASAP Utilities. When it comes to speed, Excel 2003 is still faster then Excel 2010 (I have both installed and compared 2003 to 64-bit 2010).
Or you can use a Virtual PC to with Excel 2010 32-bit and use ASAP Utilities there.

How did you compare the speed from the 32-bit version with the 64-bit version of Office 2010? Was it on the same computer with the same OS?
As apposed to what you write the documentation says that the the only major benefit of the 64-bit edition of Office 2010 is support for large Excel files (>2GB).
"Using the 64-bit version of Outlook does not have any direct benefits. The functionality within Outlook is the same and there is also no (noticeable) performance increase by using the 64-bit edition.
Installing the 64-bit version only really makes sense when you also need the 64-bit version of Excel for large file support (>2GB) and/or several complex calculations."
Source:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/outlook2010upgrade.htm#32bitvs64bit

Finally I'd like to mention that I feel a bit offended by your tone and that you feel that you can demand this from me since you didn't even contribute to the development of ASAP Utilities (I can't find a license purchased by you).
Don't you agree?

Kind regards,
Bastien Mensink

Thank you for your feedback.

It can indeed be seen as some sort of justified excuse to postpone the development of a special 64-bit version.
But I'm glad to read you can do without ASAP Utilities and find alternatives for it in the 64-bit Excel version.

Just remember, we're a small company and don't have Adobe's budget to spend on development.
Furthermore at this moment there are only very few people that use the 64-bit version of Excel. So I don't think it is fair to spend a significant amount of our time and money to create a special separate version for those people alone. We rather choose to further develop the current version we have at this moment and which works with Excel 2000, 2002/XP, 2003, 2007 and 2010(32-bit) on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. For your information, nearly all of the people that we have had contact with about the 64-bit version of Excel could also use the 32-bit version of Excel because they didn't need to work with 2 GB+ files.

Can you tell me which components run much quicker in the 64-bit version of Excel 2010 compared to the 32-bit edition? It might be interesting to know for others to know.

Kind regards,
Bastien Mensink

Many of us do use very large complex spreadsheets.
In addition, the 64-bit version of Microsoft Office, which i am using, has components which run much quicker than the 32-bit version.
64-bit Outlook is a notable performer, and it alone is worth moving to 64-bit Office.

All the other addins I use with Office 2010 are already 64-bit, so I am prepared to do without ASAP Utilities.

I'm sorry to hear this.

Do you really need the 64-bit edition of Excel 2010? It isn't faster than the 32-bit edition and mainly recommended for people that use workbooks that are incredibly large (2 GB or larger).
You license is valid for Office 2010, both the 32 and 64 bit edition. If you want to, you can (ask the IT department to) uninstall the 64-bit edition and then install the 32-bit edition and use ASAP Utilities again. Many people have already done that in order to keep using ASAP Utilities.

Kind regards,
Bastien Mensink