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Old June 28th, 2004, 02:50 PM
Terence Karran
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Default Tables greater than 63 columns

I want to create a table in Word with 104 columns, but I
seem unable to create a table larger than 63 columns,
despite altering fonts, page size, margins, etc. Even
when I paste from Excel, the resultant table only has 63
columns (also, why 63? why not 59? or 71?)

Many thanks for your help in this matter
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Old June 28th, 2004, 03:45 PM
Jean-Guy Marcil
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Default Tables greater than 63 columns

Bonjour,

Dans son message, Terence Karran écrivait :
In this message, Terence Karran wrote:

|| I want to create a table in Word with 104 columns, but I
|| seem unable to create a table larger than 63 columns,
|| despite altering fonts, page size, margins, etc. Even
|| when I paste from Excel, the resultant table only has 63
|| columns (also, why 63? why not 59? or 71?)
||
|| Many thanks for your help in this matter

The limit is
63 Columns x 32767 Rows.

These numbers are not arbitrary. My guess is that it has to do with he fact
that Word stores information in binary format. These numbers in binary are

111111 x 111111111111111
(or in Hexadecimal: 3F x 7FFF)

If the limit was one digit higher, 64 x 32768, this would give:

100000 x 1000000000000000
(or 40 x 8000 in Hex)
Which are probably to great for the allocated bytes in memory.

If you need such a large table, you have to work in Excel, then split it in
two and paste the two parts in Word as two separate tables, one next to each
other. Lots of fiddling, but it can be done.
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Salut!
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