An Excel worksheet has 17,179,869,184 cells.

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Since Excel 2007 every sheet has 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns (A to XFD). Multiply them and you get just over 17 billion cells — per sheet. Your laptop runs out of memory long before you run out of cells.

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