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The Base Guide section contains my writings. The Base Handbook has been translated from the German. Dan -------- Original message -------- From: "James E. Lang" <jim+...@lang.hm> Date:11/14/2015 1:42 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice. -----Original Message----- From: Joel Madero <jmadero....@gmail.com> To: toki <toki.kant...@gmail.com> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:12 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice. On 11/13/2015 08:23 PM, toki wrote: > On 13/11/2015 19:27, Joel Madero wrote: > >> I have never seen a 150 mb functional spreadsheet before. > That size is not uncommon in environments where Excel is the only office > tool that the employees know how to use. Trust me...I know. I worked somewhere where we had a 750 meg excel file that crashed multiple times a day and was entirely useless. When I suggested that someone (meaning I) take the time to do it right....IT pushed back heavily and was afraid that I'd break something (as if things weren't already horribly broken....). I recommend to most people who see their spreadsheets creeping into the 10's to 100's of megs to start looking at how to structure databases and do things right instead of horrible hacks that tend to have lots of issues - despite many people trying, a spreadsheet is not a database. [Joel, although I agree that my 7 MB spreadsheet has gotten unwieldy, I have no clue how to design and implement a database to replace the mess. I suspect that most users who have these oversized, abused, spreadsheets have the same problem. Businesses should be able to hire a database designer but as a retired individual I don't have financial resources to even get training in database design. So I appear to be stuck. I won't go into any of my spreadsheet's details here. Suffice it to say I recognize that it has become a kludge. At 7,145 KB after about 45 weeks accumulation of data I can see the possibility that the .ods file could expand past 8MB for the full year. Then it will start over and I'll need to figure out how to carry over some values computed from this year's data to the new spreadsheet. -- jl] Best, Joel -- Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
