Hi Mike, Any version of MS Excel before version 12 has a maximum column and cell size of 255 characters. Depending on the data, and the specific version of Excel, anything over 255 characters will either be truncated or ignored.
You can see a full list of Excel limits here: http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2005/9/26.aspx Regards - Harry At 06:26 AM 1/14/2006, Mike Reagan wrote: >Hi All >I am using Altium Designer SP4. Most of our designs have some >components which are used more than 50 times. (i.e. decoupling >capacitors). I have generated BOMs as CSV, text, and xls >outputs. Altium does a great job with any of these formats, however >when we import to into MSoft Excel, fields with large amounts of >characters such as the reference designators are omitted. The >problem is specific to MSOFT Excel since I have used other >spreadsheet programs like Quatro Pro. Has anyone else run into this problem? > > >Mike Reagan >EDSI SNIP ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
