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busted workaround for 255 character limit in cells
Hello,
I recently encountered an annoying 'bug' in excel. While I can enter 32K characters in a single cell, if I use oledb to write to and Excel spreadsheet, the limit on character size is 255. This problem has been reported in many different places. Regardless, I still needed to write more than 255 characters programmatically. I decided to use XML. Some preliminary testing demonstrated that writing the constructed cell contents to an XML file, then importing it to excel successfully brought in all the data. Yahoo. But then the typical 'gotcha' reared its most unattractive head. Importing the XML file into Excel had the side-effect of sorting the XML elements by Element name ?!?!!? This is not acceptable. How can I import an XML file into Excel XP and NOT have the columns sorted on element name? Mklapp |
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