I just been posed a question by one of the tech support people of a vendor
of ours. They come to me every now and then when it comes to technical
things that they aren't sure of as they know my knowledge is pretty high.

Anyhow, last I known, all you could do is to be able to dump data into a
single worksheet for as long as it doesn't involved going past the last row
(65536). However, this person is claiming when the data exceeds 65,500
rows, the remaining data gets dumped into additional worksheets.

I don't know of any such feature in Excel, but then I'm only using Excel
2002, which I'm not sure if they are refering to a later version of Excel or
not.

Here's some things that I do know how their data dumping works going from
their product to Excel.

First, their product does use range names when using their add-in, but when
doing the "Save as Data" menu option within their stand alone query program,
it is saving as a CVS type file, which it also does the same thing as their
add-in query program does, as far as dumping the carry over data onto other
worksheets. Obviously, the CVS file would not use range names in the manner
as their Add-In program would.

Using the Add-In program, the program first inserts or deletes the number of
rows between the first row and the second row within their named ranges of
Linked Data ranges (Their Linked and Extended Data ranges are at the minimal
required to be 2 rows each), depending on the number or rows of data being
dumped and the number of rows the Data Ranges are just prior to being
modified. Once the data is dumped, it then uses the FillDown method within
their data ranges for the Extended Data links as these ranges are typically
calculations of some sort. I do know this, given Excel calculates every
single time a little change is made, and provided it's calculation mode is
set to automatic, Excel is calculating each and every time when a single
cell of data is put in, so I also use their events to make sure the
calculation mode is set to "Manual", so as the refreshing of the data is so
much faster than it would be otherwise.

Typically, I would have responded to have their developers look at their
program, but given this is also happening with the Save as Data within the
Query program, and it's saving the information as CVS files, it seems as
though it may be some sort of setting within Excel. However, I can't say
for sure as there's still a chance it could be something else within their
program.

Does anyone know of this sort of behavior or know of some setting available
in Excel? I only ask this as some of the things that takes place, they do
rely on Excel settings while other things they have their own codes within
the Add-In program.

Sincerely,

Ronald R. Dodge, Jr.
Production Statistician
Master MOUS 2000