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 Book Home Page Bloglines 1906 CelebrateStadium 2006 OfficeZealot Scobleizer TechRepublic AskWoody SpyJournal Computers Software Microsoft Windows Excel FrontPage PowerPoint Outlook Word     Host your Web site with PureHost!   |    Thursday, April 28, 2016 – Permalink – Large Text FilesSplit between worksheetsWhile this problem is alleviated in Excel 2007+ with its 1,048,576 rows by 16,348 columns, The old XL versions are still here. Text files with a large number of records are better handled in a program like Access. Having said that, there can be times that these lists must be imported into Excel. If the file has over 65,536 records, the data will not fit on a single worksheet. Here's a Microsoft Knowledge Base article with the macro code needed to bring oversized text data into Excel and split it into multiple worksheets: 
Importing Text Files Larger Than 16,384/65,536 Rows Notice the code about 17 lines from the bottom of the macro. 'For xl97 and later change 16384 to 65536. Also, after import, the data must be parsed. Use Data>Text to columns. If you have not worked with macros before, Dave McRitchie has a tutorial: Getting Started with Macros and User Defined Functions See all Topics excel <Doug Klippert@ 3:28 AM 
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