[Discuss] OpenOffice Calc Maximum Columns

[Daniel M. German]

 Adam Parkin twisted the bytes to say:

 Adam> 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. ;)
 >> 

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

In 32 bit architectures short ints are usually implemented as 16
bit. You are taking about unsigned chars. :)

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