Re: st: Writing to large Excel files

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

The problem is not Stata - you are probably exceeding the limits of 
Excel: 65,536 rows by 256 columns for Excel 2010.


You can get half way there if you write as a comma separated file, but 
then Excel still can't open it.

cheers,
Jeph


On 1/29/2013 2:14 PM, David Epstein wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I have a large dataset that I want to write to an Excel file, so I was
> excited about Stata 12's new, improved import excel/export excel
> features. However, the file I'm writing to is ~60Mb in size, and I
> keep getting an error "file testsheet.xlsx could not be loaded". This
> does not happen when I try to write to a smaller, or blank excel
> sheet, I increased Stata's memory to much more than 60Mb, and I even
> added the undocumented "set excelxlsxlargefile on" to my code, all to
> no avail.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? Any help appreciated.
>
> David
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