On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Helen <etter...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a spreadsheet with 14 columns. > > I tried to upload it to google docs, and got a message saying the document > has too many columns, that google has a limit of 219 columns. > > So I opened my document and I see that the columns just go on and on > forever. > I need only the fourteen that I'm using. > > But I don't find how to tell my document that it has only14 columns. As I > look > through my other files, I see that this seems to be true of all my > spreadsheets -- that the columns just go on forever. How do I control how > many columns it should have? > Thanks very much, > Helen, using LibreOffice 3.3.1 in Suse 11.4 > > You may wish to try - select the first column to the right of your last column - select all the remaining columns to the right, Ctrl+Shift+rightArrow - delete the selected columns, rightClick on any selected column header and click "Delete columns" - save the spreadsheet and now try to import to GDocs
If spreadsheet has had any row based formatting applied, even formatting that isn't apparent without contents in cells, e.g. Italic, this expands the column range to all columns as far as tracking properties of spreadsheet cells go. This is true even though Ctrl+End won't take you to the right most column. It will take you only to the right most non-blank column. Don't know if this is the root of your problem but have found row or column based formatting that continues far beyond the bounds of the data range often caused unexpected behavior in my spreadsheets. Discovered this MANY moons ago with 1-2-3, Windows version, and have found it true in every version of QuattroPro, Excel and Calc since then. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
