Excel 2007 solves this with 64K columns!

"GerharddeBeer" wrote:

There are countless Aluminium smelters accross the world and most of these
have 288 cells per potline, it would be excelent to be able to fit all of the
cells into one sheet for analyses. Currently we have to split the cells in
groups of 144 pots per worksheet for analyses, this causes unecessary
complications.

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