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#1: Aug 23 '07
Hi friends

Actually my problem is with the excel sheets. I have convert one of my access report to excel sheet that have too many records. After I convert the report to excel successfully, I cant open the excel sheet, because it showing the following error while I trying to open the excel sheet
“Cell table: too many rows or columns”

Help me please
Thanks

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#2: Aug 23 '07

re: Can not open the excel sheet

Well.. there's a limit on the amount of rows and columns for excel. Excel is more limited than Access. You can have 65k rows and, I think, 256 columns. Anymore than that and you kill Excel.
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