Excel 2010 -Excel cannot complete this task with available resources

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Published on 2012-09-06T22:12:46Z Indexed on 2012/12/06 11:11 UTC
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Getting this error when trying to sort a document (Excel cannot complete this task with available resources). Document isn't particularly large, about 4,000 lines. Can't seem to figure out why this would start on this. I can sort this same file fine on everything back to Excel 2000 on older crappy computers.

Computer is running Win 7 x64, 16 Gb RAM, and another 16 Gb of virtual. There's no possible way that all of the memory is actually getting exhausted when I can perform this on an older XP machine with 512 Mb of RAM, unless 2010's memory usage is inconceivably poorly designed.

I found a few posts on forums stating that there might be a security update related bug. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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