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Re: st: re: import excel limits
From
David Epstein <[email protected]>
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Re: st: re: import excel limits
Date
Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:36:16 -0500
After testing the spreadsheet in various ways this morning, I finally
homed in on the problem, which is that the workbook contained macro
buttons (even though the buttons weren't actually hooked up to macros,
since I had converted the sheet from .xlsm to .xlsx). Once the buttons
were removed, the download worked.
I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug; I'm in contact with
engineers at Stata, but I thought people might like to know what the
problem was, and at the least the documentation should be updated to
reflect this limitation.
David
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Christopher Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> <>
> Note from the help:
>
> For performance, import excel imposes a size limit of 50 MB for Excel 2007/2010 (.xlsx) files. Be warned that importing
> large .xlsx files can severely affect your machine's performance.
>
> Technical note: Excel data size limits
>
> For an Excel .xls-type workbook, the worksheet size limits are 65,536 rows by 256 columns. The string size limit is 255
> characters.
>
> For an Excel .xlsx-type workbook, the worksheet size limits are 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns. The string size limit
> is 32,767 characters.
>
>
> This suggests you might be able to read in a larger file if it was in .xls format, but catch-22, xls files can only have 256 columns.
>
> Kit
>
>
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