They are what they say.
A row is a line of cells horizontally and a column is a vertical row of cells.
Microsoft Excel 2013 worksheets contain a maximum of 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns.
There are 256 Columns and 65,536 Rows in Excel 2000.
In Excel 2010 there are 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns.
There are 256 Columns and 65536 Rows in Excel 2003.
Up to Excel 2003 there were 65536 rows and 256 columns. Microsoft Office Excel 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 worksheets contains a maximum of 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns.
Microsoft Excel
It depends of the version of Excel you are running. Excel 2007, 2010 and 2013 have 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns. Excel 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 have 65,536 rows and 256 columns. Excel 5 and 95 have 16384 rows and 256 columns.
Excel 2003 has 65,536 rows and 256 columns.
Spreadsheet, such as that in MicroSoft Excel
it is a spread sheet application arranged in rows and columns
Representation of data in the form of columns and rows.
Colums : 16384 Rows : 1048576