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Nick Hodge
 
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Default When will the 65,000 row limit in Excel be banned?

Ron

As you've heard it is in the next version of Excel (2007)... I am intrigued
why users have a fascination for that many rows... You can't possibly get
any benefit from a 'report' with 65536 rows and if you add any kind of
VLOOKUP, SUMIF, IF, Etc, it will grind to a halt... or very near!

If it is just to store data, the relational database model is far more
efficient and you can still report the summary easily in Excel.

Also, an oft forgotten feature of Excel which has tremendous power and which
I have several models with over 500,000 records (rows), summarised into a
few rows, is pivot tables

In short I believe the change to over 1million is a recipe for disaster and
inefficient models.

Just my £0.02 (and I hate to sound too much like Aaron ;-))

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Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
www.nickhodge.co.uk
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