[wellylug] OpenOffice File Size Limited

[John C Barstow]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 12:06 +1200, Michael Dittmer wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have an Excel CSV file that is longer then 65,000 lines. Excel is
> having a fit with it.
> 
> Does OpenOffice 2.0.2 have a file size limit inregards to lines / rows?
> The file was dumped using a command line tool called "showaccs".
> 

Gnumeric can handle larger files, but IIRC the upper limit depends on a
#define; you might need to recompile the code for larger files.

To echo an earlier poster, once people have that much raw data it's
generally more effective to use a database. OO Database and MS Access
are popular for people coming from the spreadsheet world.