Date:         Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:20:43 +0530
Reply-To:     Shanks N <shanks.n@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Shanks N <shanks.n@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Office 12 and Excel
In-Reply-To:  David L. Cassell's message of "Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:51:38 -0700"
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David L Cassell <davidlcassell@MSN.COM> writes:

> SASL001@SAVIAN.NET wrote:
>>Since Excel is such a hot topic on SAS-L, I thought I would let folks know
>>that in Office 12, the limits on Excel change to 1,048,576 rows by 16,384
>>columns.
>>
>>Thought it might be of interest for all of those who have struggled under
>>the 255 x 65K issue for too long.
>>
>>Office 12 is due out latter part of next year. This is early but I hope it
>>has interest to SAS-L'ers.
>
> AAAAAAGGHH!!!  Now I'll *never* be able to get people to stop using Excel
> as their primary database system!
>
> :-)  :-)  :-)
> David

Maybe the OpenOffice suite of products might help.  Unless, you
consider all Office suites a waste whether it's given gratis or paid.

The version 2 suite should be out in a couple of months.
regards,
Shanks