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by mintplant 3791 days ago
Excel also gives you an infinite canvas to work with.
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"Huh. Excel only goes to 16,384 columns." Said my office-mate many years ago in grad school, when he was putting all of his data in one giant spreadsheet.
It also once had a row limit. I believe it was 32k, but its been a while. I remember having to program my perl reporting tool to add a new sheet each time.
It still has a row limit (and other limits), just bigger now (1048576).

Ref: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/excel-specification...