Excel should have 200,000 rows maximum

I am often assigned to create a report based on formatted reports downloaded
from a database. Excel's maximum number of rows is most of the time
insufficient to accomodate the data. I often times have to eliminate
unneccesary rows through Access prior to finalizing everything in Excel.

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Sounds to me that you should do the report in Access, or summarise the data
before downloading the data.

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"nl" wrote in message
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I am often assigned to create a report based on formatted reports
downloaded
from a database. Excel's maximum number of rows is most of the time
insufficient to accomodate the data. I often times have to eliminate
unneccesary rows through Access prior to finalizing everything in Excel.

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I aggree with bob.

FSt1

"nl" wrote:

I am often assigned to create a report based on formatted reports downloaded
from a database. Excel's maximum number of rows is most of the time
insufficient to accomodate the data. I often times have to eliminate
unneccesary rows through Access prior to finalizing everything in Excel.

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Why do you use excel for this task. why can't you use Access.
I suppose ths is another of the cases where one wants to use excel for
everything. Not many realise the diffrences of a spread sheet and a
relational data base.

"nl" wrote:

I am often assigned to create a report based on formatted reports downloaded
from a database. Excel's maximum number of rows is most of the time
insufficient to accomodate the data. I often times have to eliminate
unneccesary rows through Access prior to finalizing everything in Excel.

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The next version of Excel (2007) will have the capability of up to 1
million rows, so you'll be able to use that when it finally gets
released.

Pete