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Re: Excel column 256 limit

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On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:50:21 +0100, Steven D'Aprano  
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:28:46 -0700, Ana Dionísio wrote:
>
>> Is there some way to go around this limit? I need to import data from
>> python to excel and I need 1440 columns for that.
>
> That's an Excel question, it has nothing to do with Python.
>
> Have you considered using something other than Excel? As I understand it,
> OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and Gnumeric do not have a 256 column limit.

Just for completeness:
Excel in it's "Office 2010" version does not have a 256 column limit  
either.
I can use > 2000 columns without problem.

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Excel column 256 limit Ana Dionísio <anadionisio257@gmail.com> - 2013-03-18 08:28 -0700
  Re: Excel column 256 limit Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-18 11:48 -0400
    Re: Excel column 256 limit Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-18 16:28 +0000
  Re: Excel column 256 limit Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-18 15:50 +0000
    Re: Excel column 256 limit "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> - 2013-03-18 18:38 +0100
      Re: Excel column 256 limit Ana Dionísio <anadionisio257@gmail.com> - 2013-03-18 12:00 -0700
        Re: Excel column 256 limit Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-03-18 20:04 +0100
        Re: Excel column 256 limit Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-03-19 14:07 +0000
          Re: Excel column 256 limit "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> - 2013-03-19 15:22 +0100
          Re: Excel column 256 limit Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-03-19 09:44 -0500
          Re: Excel column 256 limit Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-03-19 16:09 -0600
            Re: Excel column 256 limit Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-03-20 14:17 +0000
      Re: Excel column 256 limit Ana Dionísio <anadionisio257@gmail.com> - 2013-03-18 12:00 -0700
    Re: Excel column 256 limit Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-03-19 15:25 +0000
  Re: Excel column 256 limit Dietmar Schwertberger <maillist@schwertberger.de> - 2013-03-18 18:00 +0100
  Re: Excel column 256 limit jmcnamara13@gmail.com - 2013-03-30 09:43 -0700

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