If this were possible then 256 would not be the maximum
Your solution lies with Excel 2007 with 16,384 columns, or with Access 2003
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"Moon Angel" <Moon wrote in message
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Is it possible to extend the maximum number of columns in Excel 2003 to
more
than 256?