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As far as I can tell, the max number of rows and columns is preset. There's 65,000 rows yet only 280-odd columns (up to IV). Is there a way of adding more columns? Cheers!


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 4:04 pm
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256 - I believe & no


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 4:05 pm
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if you need more columns, why? buy Excel 2007, or try and create lookups between Worksheets.


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 4:10 pm
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[i]if you need more columns, why? buy Excel 2007, or try and create lookups between Worksheets. [/i]

A girl at work's trying to do a holiday chart with all 365 days going across - it's not happening for her though! As resident Excel 'expert' I'm meant to know how to sort it out......


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 4:13 pm
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Use the columns for months & the rows for days or split it into 2 spreadsheets


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 4:15 pm
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i would have thought it would make more sense to run days as row headings and i am guessing staff names? as column headings, then run over a number of worksheets if you have more than 256 employees?


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 4:20 pm
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Bin out the weekends?


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 4:24 pm
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Bin out the weekends?

I take it maths is not your strongest subject? 😀


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 4:27 pm
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I made the (admittedly large)assumption that it was a mon-fri job

so binning out 2 days a week that woudnt be used - about 100 less columns

should fit in less than 280 columns

HTH!


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 4:47 pm
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should fit in less than 280 columns

indeed it would, unfortunately there's only 256 available 🙂


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 4:49 pm
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I assumed the OP was correct 🙂


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 4:51 pm
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you are stuck with 256

or buy 2007 which is unlimited


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 7:21 pm
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Standard request from secretaries trying to do tables in Excel instead of Word 🙂

Turn it round the other way and use the rows.

Or use Windows Excel Fisher Price 2007 for Dummies 😉


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 7:45 pm
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Bit of a longshot, but...

I know if you want to run a pivot table with more than 65000 rows you can link to a csv file and run it from that.

There might be a similar workaround which applies to [b]columns[/b] and could be used in a non-pivot table situation?

That said... I'm not sure how exactly you'd store the information in csv format without using Excel 2007 and saving it as a csv file!


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 7:53 pm