> I would like to know what the limit is before Excel 'chokes'? Programming wouldnt be that much fun if everything could be distilled to hard numbers, would it?? ;-)
I used to stream HTML tables to excel of about 2MB. I had to switch to server side generation, since that amount of data made the client freeze for minutes. A hung pc for 5 mins isnt condusive to happy customers :). Crashes were intermittent at that size. Quoting Michael Zalewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > HTML table chokes Excel for any bigger than trivial sized sheets. > > Generall solutions I put out support three: > > I don't think this is true. I have an application that uses HTML tables to > download an Excel spreadsheet. I tried the largest output that was > convenient for me to produce. It was 6,000 rows by about 100 columns. > Certainly not trivial. It was 7 MB when saved in Excel 97 format (and about > 4.5MB saved as a HTML table). Excel files can only be a maximum of 32 MB, > because that is the limit of an OLE Structured File. (Or am I wrong about > this?) > > I would like to know what the limit is before Excel 'chokes'? > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
