Re: st: Writing to large Excel files

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

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 <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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