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by DanBC 4153 days ago
In theory Excel can open files with 16,384 columns so it's surprising it failed.

https://support.office.com/en-nz/article/Excel-specification...

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I might misremember the number of columns (could have been 20,000 - also, it had many rows), or maybe the 16,384 column limit applies to xls(x) files only, not to importing CSV files.

I remember at first cursing at Excel, then realizing what a ridiculously large number of columns the file had.