Excel worksheet consists of rows and columns. Show Rows run horizontally and are identified by numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, …). Columns run horizontally and are identified by letters (A, B, C, D, …). The intersection of a column and row is called a cell. The cell is identified by the row number and column header, for example, B3. Number of columns and rows in one sheetDepending on the Excel version you use, there is a different number of rows and columns. Excel 2003In Excel 2003 there are 65,536 rows and 256 columns (IV). Excel 2007 and newerSince Excel 2007 the number of rows and columns is much bigger than before. This time there are 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns (XFD). Therefore the last cell is XFD1048576. Determining the column numberTo know the number of rows is easy, but it’s much more complicated with the column header. How you can quickly determine what is the header for the column 2000? You can use the following formula.
=LEFT(ADDRESS(ROW(),A2,2),FIND("$",ADDRESS(ROW(),A2,2),1)-1)
Just enter it to a cell and type the number into cell A2. The column header for the 2000th column is BXX. If you want to know more about other ways to get column header, read an article about this subject. Navigating Rows and ColumnsMoving one cell at a timeTo move one cell left, right, up or down you can use keyboard arrows. You can also use: Enter – move down Tab – move right Shift + Enter – move up Shift + Tab – move left Moving to the first/last column/rowTo move to the last column, use Ctrl + right arrow. To move to the last cell, use Ctrl + down arrow. It only works if you don’t have any cell in your way, otherwise, it will stop on the last cell in this area. In this case, you have to use the keyboard shortcut one more time. In the following example, I selected cell A2. Now I press Ctrl + right arrow and the cursor stops at C2. I press one more time and it stops at E2. Use the keyboard shortcut one more time. This time it will go to the last column.
This topic explains how to work around the Excel 2003 row limitation when you export paginated reports to Excel. The workaround is for a report that contains only a table. Excel 2003 supports a maximum of 65,536 rows per worksheet. You can work around this limitation by forcing an explicit page break after a certain number of rows. The Excel renderer creates a new worksheet for each explicit page break. To create an explicit page break
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