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Re: st: Writing to large Excel files


From   Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Writing to large Excel files
Date   Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:02:50 -0500

Apologies, I misread this page

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/excel-specifications-and-limits-HP005199291.aspx

which seems to advertise the limits for Excel 2010, but must refer to 2003.



On 1/29/2013 3:38 PM, Friedrich Huebler wrote:
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 <[email protected]> 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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