Hi all
New around here and wondered if someone could tell me please how many
worksheets I can get into an Excel 97 workbook. I could do with storing a
lot of files and didn't want to link outside the workbook if I can help it -
had too many bad experiences with data movement and corruption when linked
to external sheets.
Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks
Bob
..-.-.

Worksheets by themselves, pretty much limited by memory only so if empty you
can pretty much keep going. If you put stuff in them though, then that
varies depending on what type of data you have in there and what sort of
volume. If you filled an entire sheet with data in every cell then it may
well die on you if you try copying the sheet just once.

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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"Bob .-.-." wrote in message
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Hi all
New around here and wondered if someone could tell me please how many
worksheets I can get into an Excel 97 workbook. I could do with storing a
lot of files and didn't want to link outside the workbook if I can help
it -
had too many bad experiences with data movement and corruption when linked
to external sheets.
Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks
Bob
.-.-.

Hi Ken
Many thanks for your reply. I was planning to run what I would have thought
of as reasonably average spreadsheets in the book with links in-between the
pages.
I have used linked books extensively and found data integrity in terms of
data shifting in tables and lookups going haywire to be quite common place.
This is an attempt to stop as much of this movement as I can and to make
storage and recall of files as easy as possible - there again I may have
just ruined that idea because of file/sheet finding & recovery in the book
if it gets big - really big.
Hmmmmmm
Thanks again, maybe I need to think it over again
Regards
Bob

Bob .-.-. wrote:
Hi Ken
Many thanks for your reply. I was planning to run what I would have thought
of as reasonably average spreadsheets in the book with links in-between the
pages.
I have used linked books extensively and found data integrity in terms of
data shifting in tables and lookups going haywire to be quite common place.
This is an attempt to stop as much of this movement as I can and to make
storage and recall of files as easy as possible - there again I may have
just ruined that idea because of file/sheet finding & recovery in the book
if it gets big - really big.
Hmmmmmm
Thanks again, maybe I need to think it over again
Regards
Bob


Sounds like you might have a situation where you would be better
off using Access. You don't explain what you're doing but if you
have multiple sheets and links and lots of data you might be using
the wrong program.

gls858

Hard to determine what big really means. Must admit I don't really like
linked workbooks myself, but linked worksheets I've had very few problems
with. Your call though.

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-)
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"Bob .-.-." wrote in message
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Hi Ken
Many thanks for your reply. I was planning to run what I would have
thought
of as reasonably average spreadsheets in the book with links in-between
the
pages.
I have used linked books extensively and found data integrity in terms of
data shifting in tables and lookups going haywire to be quite common
place.
This is an attempt to stop as much of this movement as I can and to make
storage and recall of files as easy as possible - there again I may have
just ruined that idea because of file/sheet finding & recovery in the book
if it gets big - really big.
Hmmmmmm
Thanks again, maybe I need to think it over again
Regards
Bob