I would guess that the VAST majority of spreadsheets use nothing near the
current limit of 256 columns. In other words, I'd guess this is one of those
things that would benefit so few users that it'd be a really low priority in
my book (or should that be workbook?)

If MS could simply increase the max # without in any way affecting
performance, or without causing other, more needed features to be omitted,
then I'd be in favor of more columns. Otherwise - NO WAY.

"jkp" wrote:

I am building a worksheet that needs 262 columns. It will have 259 worksheets
linked to this main worksheet. Just wondering why the number of columns is
limited to 256.