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Excel doesn't have enough rows
Excel doewn't have enough rows to import a text file with 700,000 records.
Is there a way to detect this with say a macro, open the file with the open wizard (to parse the .txt into cells), put 50,000 parsed records in the first tab. open up another tab and name it, put the next 50,000 parsed records in the tab and name it, etc. until enough tabs are opened, named, and parsed to hold 700,000 records? Or am I asking for the sky? thanks, david |
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Excel doesn't have enough rows
What you are asking for is do-able but possilby not worth doing. At 700,000
records you are going to have disturbingly poor performance with anything you try to do. Depending what version of Excel you are using you may also run out of usable memorey and crash Excel. Is it possible to load the text file into a database (Access) and then link to that database via queries or with a pivot table. Your performance will infinitly better and everything will be much easier to work with. Just my two cents... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "david" wrote: Excel doewn't have enough rows to import a text file with 700,000 records. Is there a way to detect this with say a macro, open the file with the open wizard (to parse the .txt into cells), put 50,000 parsed records in the first tab. open up another tab and name it, put the next 50,000 parsed records in the tab and name it, etc. until enough tabs are opened, named, and parsed to hold 700,000 records? Or am I asking for the sky? thanks, david |
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Excel doesn't have enough rows
I wanted to know if it could be done in Excel since I am not Access savvy.
It opens up fine in notepad, but I cannot perform the things I want to do in notepad that I can do in excel. thanks, david "Jim Thomlinson" wrote: What you are asking for is do-able but possilby not worth doing. At 700,000 records you are going to have disturbingly poor performance with anything you try to do. Depending what version of Excel you are using you may also run out of usable memorey and crash Excel. Is it possible to load the text file into a database (Access) and then link to that database via queries or with a pivot table. Your performance will infinitly better and everything will be much easier to work with. Just my two cents... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "david" wrote: Excel doewn't have enough rows to import a text file with 700,000 records. Is there a way to detect this with say a macro, open the file with the open wizard (to parse the .txt into cells), put 50,000 parsed records in the first tab. open up another tab and name it, put the next 50,000 parsed records in the tab and name it, etc. until enough tabs are opened, named, and parsed to hold 700,000 records? Or am I asking for the sky? thanks, david |
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Excel doesn't have enough rows
Loading the data into Access is easy and the query / pivot table connections
are done directly through Excel. If you want help with that I am only too happy to oblige. Doing the VB and making a spreadsheet that works is much more difficult than the Access route. Open Access It will as you if you wna to open an existing database or creat a new databse. Select Create New Save the database to wherever you want Click on File Click Get External Data Find your Text File Follow the Wizard Name the table Congratulations you now have all of the records in a useable format. In Excel Select Data - Pivot table change the default to Get External Data Find your database Select your table... You can now manipulate all 700,000 records in the pivot table... If you want to query the records then in Excel select Data - External Data - New Database Query Add the fields and the criteria you want an you are started... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "david" wrote: I wanted to know if it could be done in Excel since I am not Access savvy. It opens up fine in notepad, but I cannot perform the things I want to do in notepad that I can do in excel. thanks, david "Jim Thomlinson" wrote: What you are asking for is do-able but possilby not worth doing. At 700,000 records you are going to have disturbingly poor performance with anything you try to do. Depending what version of Excel you are using you may also run out of usable memorey and crash Excel. Is it possible to load the text file into a database (Access) and then link to that database via queries or with a pivot table. Your performance will infinitly better and everything will be much easier to work with. Just my two cents... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "david" wrote: Excel doewn't have enough rows to import a text file with 700,000 records. Is there a way to detect this with say a macro, open the file with the open wizard (to parse the .txt into cells), put 50,000 parsed records in the first tab. open up another tab and name it, put the next 50,000 parsed records in the tab and name it, etc. until enough tabs are opened, named, and parsed to hold 700,000 records? Or am I asking for the sky? thanks, david |
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