It is because the numbers they do use are related to powers of 2. If you start at 1 and keep doubling up, you will find many numbers that are commonly used in computers. These are used because they are associated with binary, which computers use at the most fundamental levels. Here are the first block of those numbers:
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512,1024,2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32678, 65536, 131072, 262144, 524288, 1048576.
Amongst those you will see some of the numbers for the amount of rows and columns in different versions of Excel.
Microsoft Excel 2000 has 256 columns.
To hide columns of a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel 2007 simply select the columns and click on the hide option.
There are 256 Columns and 65536 Rows in Excel 2003.
There are 256 Columns and 65,536 Rows in Excel 2000.
The total number of columns in versions of Excel up to Excel 2003 is 256 columns. The total number of columns in Microsoft Excel 2007 and onwards is 16384. The total number of rows up to Excel 2003 is 65536. From Excel 2007 it is 1048576.
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Columns are vertical cells (they run up and down).
Spreadsheet, such as that in MicroSoft Excel
Microsoft Excel makes perfect columns. She took a picture of the building's granite columns.
No. That is a feature of Microsoft Word tables, but not Excel. There are specific options for inserting rows and columns in Excel.
It's been a while since I used Excel 2003 but I believe there are a maximum of 256 available columns.
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