Question about the excel spreadsheet row limit (2024)

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Re: Question about the excel spreadsheet row limit

Desktop Excel has a row limit of 1,048,576 rows and a column limit of 16,384 columns. The row limit exists because desktop Excel runs locally on a user's computer and is limited to the memory (RAM) and compute (CPU) resources on the computer.

How to open a data set that exceeds Excel's grid limits. Using Excel for PC means you can import the file using Get Data to load all the data. While the data still won't display more than the number of rows and columns in Excel, the complete data set is there and you can analyze it without losing data.

You may know that Excel has a physical limit of 1 million rows (well, its 1,048,576 rows).

The Google Sheets row limit is actually a limit of 10 million cells. The default Google Sheet opens with 26 columns labeled A through Z and a 384,615 row limit, which reaches the Google Sheets cell limit of 10,000,000 cells. Create any combination of rows and columns that remains under the 10 million cell limit.

You will choose to create a Pivot Table Report. This will allow you to quickly create a pivot table and start to analyze and bypass the Excel 1 million row limit because you are not displaying all the rows at once. They are in a pivot table.

Hi Auro, If you want to change the row height to more than 409, I'd like to say that the maximum value of the row height is 409 in the Excel application by default.

We have a quite large spreadsheet with more than 10000 rows (each containing a different value). We like to use filters to filter in the spreadsheet, however, the filter dialog only allows filtering for the first 10000 unique values.

In this case, we chose the rows from A10 to the last. Now, right-click on the mouse after the rows are selected and choose the option that will hide the rows. After the rows are selected to be hidden, the user will only see those not set as hidden. In this way, the rows are limited in Excel.

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Re: More than 1,048,576 rows

Split the CSV file and import it into separate worksheets or combine queries using Power Query to manage large datasets in Excel, but be cautious of potential performance issues.

Limit of one million rows returned on any query: There is a fixed limit of one million rows placed on the number of rows that can be returned in any single query to the underlying source. This generally has no practical implications, and visuals themselves aren't going to display that many points.