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Subject: Re: off topic excel question for low level programmers

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 15:27:40 08/07/04

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On August 07, 2004 at 18:22:30, Duncan Roberts wrote:

>On August 07, 2004 at 18:15:37, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On August 07, 2004 at 18:04:10, Duncan Roberts wrote:
>>
>>>excel only allows you 65,000 or so rows. If you want to change this so that many
>>>more are allowed. Is it just a question of changing an int to a long somewhere
>>>and how would you do it.? Or is it more complicated than that.?
>>>
>>>
>>>duncan
>>
>>You can't change Excel, use Access when have you more than 65,000 rows.
>thanks for the tip, but why cannot you over-write some machine code.
>
>duncan


I don't think it's that simple -- it is the way the data is being stored - not
just "rowlimit == 65536".  Probably has something do with making prior version
of Excel spreadsheets, that were based on 16 bit code, to be compatible with
more recent versions of Excel



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