Re: OpenOffice.org 3.0 is an incremental improvement
Posted by: Anonymous
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on October 14, 2008 02:30 AM
Excel 2003, actually. Calc is not yet on par with Excel yet, but Excel is a poor example anyway. There's been discussion on the forums for this, since a minimum of Excel file support is a must.
Excel was limited to 256 columns through version 2003, and only in the 2007 version did it increase to 16,384 columns. Although most alternative spreadsheets followed MS's poor example of only 256, Corel's QuattroPro has had 18,000+ columns since at least version 9?, ~2002? KSpread on the other hand has 32k columns, for those wanting width, though length is only 32k rows as well.
The utility of these limits probably only affects a few. I'm one that finds >256 useful on occasion, when a database isn't a convenient alternative. A database certainly seems as plausible a preferred solution for >32k rows (KSpread) as 256 columns (Excel 2003). Nonetheless the demand for rows has always been high: Excel 2003 (and others following) with 65k rows and QuattroPro 9 with 1M rows, followed by Excel 2007 with 1M rows (actually Excel is following QP). User-defined limits make the most sense, actually.
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Re: OpenOffice.org 3.0 is an incremental improvement
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 75.36.168.234] on October 14, 2008 02:30 AMExcel was limited to 256 columns through version 2003, and only in the 2007 version did it increase to 16,384 columns. Although most alternative spreadsheets followed MS's poor example of only 256, Corel's QuattroPro has had 18,000+ columns since at least version 9?, ~2002? KSpread on the other hand has 32k columns, for those wanting width, though length is only 32k rows as well.
The utility of these limits probably only affects a few. I'm one that finds >256 useful on occasion, when a database isn't a convenient alternative. A database certainly seems as plausible a preferred solution for >32k rows (KSpread) as 256 columns (Excel 2003). Nonetheless the demand for rows has always been high: Excel 2003 (and others following) with 65k rows and QuattroPro 9 with 1M rows, followed by Excel 2007 with 1M rows (actually Excel is following QP). User-defined limits make the most sense, actually.
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