[Discuss] OpenOffice Calc Maximum Columns

[pw]

R. McFarlane wrote:
> pw wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does anyone know, off the top of their head, if OpenOffice Calc is able
>> to handle more than 256 columns?
>>
>> MS Excel has always had this limitation making it rather painful to
>> use data with more columns.
> 
>     Being the curious fellow that I am, I downloaded OO for windoze, 
> installed it and ran Calc. Sure enough, only 256 columns allowed. I 
> guess 257 would cause the world to stop. ;)
> 

Awe shucks!
What ever happened to making endless linked lists of columns????!!!!

Oh well....

The following also works, provided I tune up the spacing
in the file:

cat file.txt | cut -d " " -f 1-208 >file_part1.txt
cat file.txt | cut -d " " -f 209- >file_part2.txt

Peter