[Discuss] OpenOffice Calc Maximum Columns

[pw]

Adam Parkin wrote:
> 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. ;)
>>
> 
> No just force a programmer to use an int instead of a short int. =;->

Actually, a truly object oriented spreadsheet should treat columns as
objects. They should be listed, added to, removed from, iterated through,
etc..

The use of fixed values for something like that seems a bit dodgy to me.

Peter