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Asked: 2026-05-12T06:40:33+00:00

I was using a not-so-up-to-date version of OOo.calc (Open Office Spreasheet component, version 2.04,

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I was using a not-so-up-to-date version of OOo.calc (Open Office Spreasheet component, version 2.04, default for RHEL 5), and bumped into a nasty surprise. When trying to import a csv file (with about 100k row), it said that there is a limitation of max 64k rows, and that remaining rows would just be discarded.
I was planning to have users use OOo for client-side processing of large sample sets, to be uploaded to server for processing (and possibly returning results as a spreadsheet), but such a limitation would effectively kill that approach.

Does anyone know if a later versions might have lifted this limit? If not, I will need to consider alternative spreadsheet apps; so if anyone knows of good alternatives beyond Excel (which I am aware of 🙂 ), feel free to share.

EDIT: after downloading and testing OOo 3.1, I found out that unfortunately this limit still exists in its original form.
OOo spreadsheets can not have more than 65536 rows, even with version 3.1

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to Wikipedia, the limit is still 64K rows. In case you are leery of Wikipedia, that article does have a link to an OpenOffice.org FAQ, which (1) does corroborate the 64K figure, but (2) is marked as obsolete, and automatically redirects you to the general FAQ wiki. Make of that what you will, but as tesseractor points out, Excel 2007 has a vastly higher limit. (This of course does not help you if you must use RHEL.)

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