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Re:Tatsuo Horiuchi: The 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist... by scott_s on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:51AM (#10980238)
"Huh. Excel only goes to 16,384 columns." Said my office-mate many years ago in grad school, when he was putting all of his data in one giant spreadsheet.
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Re:Tatsuo Horiuchi: The 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist... by protomyth on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @10:42AM (#10980602)
It also once had a row limit. I believe it was 32k, but its been a while. I remember having to program my perl reporting tool to add a new sheet each time.
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Re:Tatsuo Horiuchi: The 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist... by ashmud on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:01AM (#10980733)
It still has a row limit (and other limits), just bigger now (1048576).

Ref: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/excel-specification...

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