Microsoft Excel 2007 Specifications and limitations

These are some New Microsoft Excel 2007 Specifications and limitations. You have to check it before you select Microsoft Excel as your firm database.

• Open workbooks : depands on system resource


• Worksheet size : Rows: 1048576 and Columns: 16384 (XFD)


• Maximum Sheets in a workbook : depands on system resource


• Column width : 255 characters


• Row height : 409 points


• Page breaks : 1026 both horizontal and vertical


• Total number of characters in a cell : 32767


• Characters in a header or footer : 255


• Unique cell formats/cell styles : 64000


• Zoom range : 10% to 400%


• Undo levels : 100


• Parameters per Workbook : 255


• Maximum arguments in a function : 255


• Custom functions : depands on available memory


• Worksheets referred to by a chart : 255

I think that small firm database can be easily handle by this Application. And when your are using Microsoft Excel 2007 there are many new feature, to create summary report.