the end of excel

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I am making a list in excel but now I am at line 65536 and can't go further.
Is there a way to make this list longer. I'm using excel on a Mac.
 
A single sheet cannot contain more than 65536 rows. However, you can have
multiple sheets. Try to find a logical way of splitting your list into pages.

One way is alphabetical, labelling each page with the letter it contains
entries. This way the tabs at the bottom of the excel window representing the
pages looks like the tabs in a telephone directory.
 
In message (e-mail address removed),
I am making a list in excel but now I am at line 65536 and can't go
further. Is there a way to make this list longer. I'm using excel on
a Mac.

What is the list of? 65.5K is a lot of rows!!
 
Since 3 years I'm making a list of books and the most important thing
is that I can sort them alphabeticly, colomn 1 or 2 or 3 or 4.
For example:
Name of writer - name of book - name of publisher - sort of book

I know, some people have strange activities....
 
Have you considered putting them into a database instead of excel?

The fact that you have it in excel - makes it pretty easy to import it into
a database as well.

-Just a thought

Miro
 
In message (e-mail address removed),
Since 3 years I'm making a list of books and the most important thing
is that I can sort them alphabeticly, colomn 1 or 2 or 3 or 4.
For example:
Name of writer - name of book - name of publisher - sort of book

I know, some people have strange activities....

Gosh, 66 thousand books! That's a few...

You can't go beyond that many rows, and splitting the list across multiple
'pages' will mean you won't be able to freely sort by all those different
columns...

I'd agree with Miro that a simple database might be your best way forward.
In fact I'd say it IS your best way forwards as it is so much more flexible
and powerful than a simple spreadsheet for this kind of application.
Doing this is fairly involved, certainly more complicated than Excel and it
is probably a bit beyond the scope of anything that could be easily
discussed here, but if you have a copy of MS-Access (or any other simple
database program), have a look at the samples and helpfiles that come with
it and see if it makes any sense.

If you want some help with the database, maybe you could have a look in
'microsoft.public.access'?

The only other thing you could do, if you want to stick with Excel is to
sort the books into categories and put one on each 'page'
Say Fiction/Non-Fiction or Sci-Fi/Crime/Thriller or
Cookery/Engineering/Nuclear Physics (well, I don't know what kind of books
they are...)

Hope this helps...
 
Yes I agree...

Access would be great for a start and a wizard would do the trick for you as
well.

Learning .Net myself... database stuff ( learning ) is not as easy as it
seems in the begining.
-Thats mostly because im old school with a lot of 4GL languagees and
different data types.
To teach an old dog new database tricks takes time.

Have you ever used something like access?
Im assuming you use Visual Basic .Net Express right now?

Miro
 
Linda,
Did you ever export your list of book into a database system. Please let me
know how it went.
 
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