column limit in libreoffice 4.3.something

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#1

today I encountered a problem opening an excel file with libreoffice 4.3.something regarding maximum number of column, why number of columns is so low in libreoffice ???
many thanks, ciao :slight_smile: pier

#2

- Please, define 'so low'

i see 1024 columns in 4.4.something and also in 4.1.something

- Please, share COMPLETE (version) info, or nothing if you are too lazy to find out.... :wink:

#3

I am using LO version 4.3.5.2.

Its spreadsheet size is "limited" to 1G cells (1K columns by 1M rows) per sheet. I don't know how many sheets are allowed. YMMV but I know that these spreadsheet size limits are currently quite sufficient for my needs. I also know that I currently have no desire to use anything bigger since the speed of adding a data value in a single cell at a time was abysmal when I had 4K rows on each of four sheets and used less than 100 columns on any single sheet. I trimmed the document back to about 1200 rows per sheet for now but I expect it will grow to between 4000 and 5000 by the end of the year when I'll start a fresh document with a couple hundred rows.

Of course much of the processing time was most likely spent evaluating some reasonably (or maybe unreasonably) complex formulas. I'm working on formula simplification but this is difficult since I often make use of the OFFSET() function to reference dynamically defined ranges of cells.

#4

today I encountered a problem opening an excel file with libreoffice
4.3.something regarding maximum number of column, why number of columns
is so low in libreoffice ???
many thanks, ciao :slight_smile: pier

- Please, define 'so low'

i see 1024 columns in 4.4.something and also in 4.1.something

I exported a 2kx2k dataset in csv from a database to be eaten by a python program and I can open it in excel but non in libreoffice calc, and this is bad... :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

- Please, share COMPLETE (version) info, or nothing if you are too lazy
to find out.... :wink:

I wasn't there when I posted and i supposed that a parameter like numbers of columns doesn't change in subversions... :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
Have you tried Gnumeric for spreadsheet work? It is a dedicated
spreadsheet program rather than being part of a suite so there are quite a
few advantages to it for serious spreadsheeting work.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Since Gnumeric is a more "serious" toy than the somewhat "baroqe" toys
Calc and Excel, it supports 65.536x256 columns (2^15 x 2^8). This used
to be the standard for 3 decades (80ies until 2007).
On a Linux system it takes no more than 3 seconds to check this out
because Gnumeric starts in less than 2 seconds.

#7

Try importing into Base as csv, pay particular attention formatting on this screen matches your csv.
During import keep an eye out for errors. Stop at error, look at last record imported in table. Using text editor, fix that or next record.
Delete Base database and re-iterate until no errors found.
When complete import occurs, copy table to Calc.

This works fairly well for finding import errors and copying from Base to Calc is usually a clean process.

Just ran my first Firebird test and it does import much fast than HSQL1.8

Yes, I did have problems importing a csv directly into Calc which showed non-english character set.

Hope this helps.

#8

The problem is not new, the solution at present unlikely to be
implemented, see link below for further information :

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50916

Alex

#9

And this :

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43911

Alex

#10

Since nobody corrects my error, I've got to do it by myself:
My Gnumeric 1.10.17 (shipped with Ubuntu 12.4) allows me to adjust the
rows and columns within limits.
menu:Edit>Sheet>Adjust Size... opens a dialog with two sliders.
You can adjust the row count from 128 up to 16777216.
You can adjust the column count from 128 up to 16384.

#11

...mmmh, does it works in windows too??? I will try.. :slight_smile:

#12

...manythanks, I will try.. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

#13

Hi :slight_smile:
Have you tried Gnumeric for spreadsheet work? It is a dedicated
spreadsheet program rather than being part of a suite so there are
quite a
few advantages to it for serious spreadsheeting work.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

...mmmh, does it works in windows too??? I will try.. :slight_smile:

You need to find some outdated version for Windows. The recent builds
since August 2014 somehow lost the Windows OS.