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importing data into excel
i need to import data from a .asc file into excel. the problem is that i need
to import just over 80 000 lines & excel only allows the first 65 500 lines to import. how do i get the remaining 15 000-odd lines onto the next spreadsheet? |
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Possible alternative?
If you intend to ultimately cull/summarize the data, would you consider importing the file into MS Access? Then you could us MS Query from Excel to extract only the data you need. Is that something you can work with? *********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "paulp" wrote: i need to import data from a .asc file into excel. the problem is that i need to import just over 80 000 lines & excel only allows the first 65 500 lines to import. how do i get the remaining 15 000-odd lines onto the next spreadsheet? |
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If you use the Data Import Wizard to bring the file into Excel, there
is a setting for "Start Import at Row". If this is set to 1 then Excel will import as many rows as it can starting with this (i.e. 65536 or 64k). However, you can change this value up to 32k, so if you import with this setting then you will get rows from 32k to 80k into another worksheet - there is obviously an overlap of records, but it is quite easy to delete the first 32k records in the second sheet to give you the remaining 16k records. Using this technique you can import files of up to 96k records. Note that my "k" refers to 1024. Hope this helps. Pete paulp wrote: i need to import data from a .asc file into excel. the problem is that i need to import just over 80 000 lines & excel only allows the first 65 500 lines to import. how do i get the remaining 15 000-odd lines onto the next spreadsheet? |
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i've tried this out & excel will only import up to the 65 500th line & not
import anything beyond that. for eg., i started the import at line 32 000, hoping for every line to the 80 000th to be imported. however, only up to line 65 500 was & i did open a new document (book) to import the second set of data. "Pete_UK" wrote: If you use the Data Import Wizard to bring the file into Excel, there is a setting for "Start Import at Row". If this is set to 1 then Excel will import as many rows as it can starting with this (i.e. 65536 or 64k). However, you can change this value up to 32k, so if you import with this setting then you will get rows from 32k to 80k into another worksheet - there is obviously an overlap of records, but it is quite easy to delete the first 32k records in the second sheet to give you the remaining 16k records. Using this technique you can import files of up to 96k records. Note that my "k" refers to 1024. Hope this helps. Pete paulp wrote: i need to import data from a .asc file into excel. the problem is that i need to import just over 80 000 lines & excel only allows the first 65 500 lines to import. how do i get the remaining 15 000-odd lines onto the next spreadsheet? |
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I use XL2000 and I have done this many times with large files, so I
don't know why it doesn't work for you. I remember seeing a macro on the Microsoft support site which could be used to import very large files - it just chopped the data up into 64k segments on different sheets in the same workbook, so you could do a Google search for that. You could also consider a move to XL2007, which has up to 1 million row capability. Hope these suggestions help. Pete paulp wrote: i've tried this out & excel will only import up to the 65 500th line & not import anything beyond that. for eg., i started the import at line 32 000, hoping for every line to the 80 000th to be imported. however, only up to line 65 500 was & i did open a new document (book) to import the second set of data. "Pete_UK" wrote: If you use the Data Import Wizard to bring the file into Excel, there is a setting for "Start Import at Row". If this is set to 1 then Excel will import as many rows as it can starting with this (i.e. 65536 or 64k). However, you can change this value up to 32k, so if you import with this setting then you will get rows from 32k to 80k into another worksheet - there is obviously an overlap of records, but it is quite easy to delete the first 32k records in the second sheet to give you the remaining 16k records. Using this technique you can import files of up to 96k records. Note that my "k" refers to 1024. Hope this helps. Pete paulp wrote: i need to import data from a .asc file into excel. the problem is that i need to import just over 80 000 lines & excel only allows the first 65 500 lines to import. how do i get the remaining 15 000-odd lines onto the next spreadsheet? |
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paulp
Couple of choices other than the one given by Pete_UK 1. break the file into two files and import one to Sheet1 and other to Sheet2 2. use the macro found here. http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q120596 Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:31:02 -0800, paulp wrote: i need to import data from a .asc file into excel. the problem is that i need to import just over 80 000 lines & excel only allows the first 65 500 lines to import. how do i get the remaining 15 000-odd lines onto the next spreadsheet? |
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