The statement about Excel is incorrect. The maximum worksheet size in
Excel 2010 is 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns.
Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/excel-help/excel-specifications-and-limits-HP010342495.aspx
Friedrich
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
> 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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