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TOPIC: Is it possible to extend >256 columns in exporting

Is it possible to extend >256 columns in exporting 2 years 5 months ago #53938

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When exporting, it truncates <256 columns, not just in .xls or .doc but also in .csv but why limit it to .csv too? New MS .xlsx and .docx does not limit to <256 columns.

Is there any way to export more than >256 columns of data?
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Re:Is it possible to extend >256 columns in exporting 2 years 5 months ago #53949

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For CSV I think you can simply mark more than 256 columns and export them.
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Re:Is it possible to extend >256 columns in exporting 2 years 5 months ago #53950

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Is this really limited to 256 columns?

If so, add this as a feature request at our feature tracker . Please describe your idea as detailed as possible and try to outline a suitable solution/implementation aswell.

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Re:Is it possible to extend >256 columns in exporting 2 years 5 months ago #53989

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Ok, I have to re-select the column to all, then it exports >256 columns to .csv (It selected 256 by default).

Is there any plans to export to .xlsx or .docx?
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Re:Is it possible to extend >256 columns in exporting 2 years 5 months ago #54002

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You should be able to open both (.xls and .doc) at the latest Office versions?!

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Re:Is it possible to extend >256 columns in exporting 2 years 5 months ago #54008

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I think he/she refers to export for the new versions, because the limits for columns is a lot higher than 256. So an export to xlsx would have the advantage, that there is no limit of 256 columns, but of 16.384 columns.
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Re:Is it possible to extend >256 columns in exporting 2 years 5 months ago #54281

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Hi

First export it to CSV, I think there is no such 256 columns limit and then:

support.microsoft.com/kb/272729/en-us

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Re:Is it possible to extend >256 columns in exporting 2 years 5 months ago #54338

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No need office 2007, OpenOffice.org Calc have more than 256 column before MS-Office Excel.
And i never work to make a xslx export (maybe an ODS, but CSV is suffiscient)
And openoffice open CSV too.

Maybe we can remove the default 256 column maximum for CSV .
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