Excel is an incredibly functional program that has a lot of features. But at the same time, it has some limitations. In particular, the number of lines. If you suddenly try to make a table in which there are more rows than specified, then an error window will appear.
True, this limit is actually only theoretical, because in practice it is most likely not possible to achieve it. However, many users are interested in such a question purely for the sake of understanding how limitless the possibilities of the program are and whether they really are as limitless as it is often presented in Excel manuals.
Specifications and limitations in Excel
If the user suddenly accidentally exceeds the maximum number of rows or columns in Excel, then the error “The file is not completely loaded” will appear. It means that the document contains more than 1 lines or 048 columns. However, this problem can be fixed. To do this, you need to open the table in Microsoft Word, reduce the size of the columns in the file by splitting it into two, and then alternately save these files in Microsoft Excel format. After that, they need to be opened.
There is also a second method that can be used if you cannot achieve the desired result using the first. You can try opening the spreadsheet in Microsoft Access and then saving a few subsets of the information to Excel.
Microsoft Access is a program for creating and maintaining databases. It is not as popular as Excel because it has a more specialized purpose.
There is another reason why this error occurs. It may occur because the user is trying to insert data that is larger than the maximum supported by the table. To solve this problem, you need to click on the screen area and select the one that will place all the elements, including separators.
Let’s now take a closer look at the topic, how many maximum rows and columns can be used in one Excel document? In fact, the figure will be much higher than the one given above. Why? And very soon you will find out.
Max Rows in Excel
By standard, Excel makes it possible to work within one document with three sheets, each of which has 1 lines. At the same time, the number of sheets is actually limited only by the computer’s RAM. Therefore, large documents cannot be opened on cheap laptops in which the amount of RAM does not exceed 048 GB (such as smartbooks and other devices of this class).
Also such a table will not open very well on smartphones and tablets. However, by standard, a workbook should not open with problems if it contains three sheets with that many rows.
But there is also an opinion that says that if you use the 64-bit version of the office suite, then the maximum number of supported lines will be greater. Is this statement true? Actually, yes, but only theoretically. In practice, it turns out that this limitation is inherent in the product itself, and not due to the number of bits that is supported.
Among other things, if the sheet size is too large, then some problems may arise if you use such a file on another computer or with a different version of Excel. Since the developers want the document to be accessible to everyone, they deliberately lower the number of lines they support.
Therefore, the worksheet will work correctly on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines, no matter how much RAM they contain.
How to determine the number of rows in Excel? To do this, click on any column that does not contain any values, and then press the key combination Ctrl + down arrow. After that, the program itself will show you the last row.
By the way, this trick can be used to store information that should not be directly in front of the user’s eyes, or it is better to hide it so that everything is more aesthetically pleasing. For example, specify a formula or intermediate data that are important for the performance of a particular document, but at the same time they clutter up the precious space of the main table.
We see that it is not difficult to independently determine the maximum number of supported Excel rows. You just need to press literally two buttons.
Maximum number of columns in Excel
To determine the maximum number of columns supported by Microsoft Excel, you must press the key combination Ctrl + right arrow. After that, the application will automatically show you the border of the sheet. Similar to the last line, the last columns can also be used to store auxiliary information, which, although not particularly secret (very easy to detect), is suitable for freeing up the main document space for other tasks.
After all, practice shows that even this limit is impossible to achieve. There is no such table in which it would be required to use so many rows and columns. Even if the same table is supplemented for several years, there is still a lot of space left. Therefore, this limit is only theoretical, so you do not need to worry that someday you will encounter the need to exceed it. And even if you become the first person to do this, you can always offer a table on the second and third sheets, or create a new file, and then simply establish a relationship between these two documents.
So, how many columns does the program support? One sheet can fit up to 16 columns. In the same way as in the case of strings, the maximum number of sheets in this case will be three pieces.