Wolfgang Keller wrote:
Hello,
has the sourcecode of OO Calc been foreseen to be recompiled with an
appropriate option to support more than 64k rows and more than 256
columns (and more than 256 sheets)?
Gnumeric, for example, allows this...
And, quite honestly, 64k rows and 256 column is _nothing_ for OLAP or
statistical analysis.
TIA,
Wolfgang Keller
Wolfgang,
This is a very good question and unfortunately, the answer is no. It was
already a big undertaking to allow a sheet to support 64K rows rather
than 32K rows. The problem is that the program is specifically written
to assume a certain number of rows, columns, and sheets as the maximum.
Consider the problem of allowing more than 256 columns for a moment.
There is a lot of code in a lot of places that assume that there will
never be anything more than this. Even worse, the type of variable to
hold the number of columns has also been chosen to optimize speed and
size of storage. To increase the number of columns, every instance of
this must also be changed. It is a difficult and error prone process if
it was not assumed from the start....
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