Size limit for importing Excel to Numbers?

[Jim GDT]

Is there a size limit for importing an Excel File into Numbers? The error message says the file is too large. Has this been changed in i-work 09? The file has multiple sheets that refer to each other, but i can't even open at this point. It is 3.1 MB. Thanks for any info!-- Jim

 

[Cromulent]

Is there a size limit for importing an Excel File into Numbers? The error message says the file is too large. Has this been changed in i-work 09? The file has multiple sheets that refer to each other, but i can't even open at this point. It is 3.1 MB. Thanks for any info!-- Jim

Not that I have found and I get some pretty big spreadsheets from my suppliers.

 

[Ashka]

It is probably the multiple linked sheets rather than the size which is causing a problem.
You could always try the guys and gals on the Apple support Numbers forums:
iWork'08 Numbers:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1189
iWork'09 Numbers:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1300
S.

 

[HardyH]

Size limit for large tab-delimited text files

I am generating 20MB tab-delimited text files in a statistical program that are >30,000 rows x >40 columns. I have always imported them into Excel for further analysis without a problem (32-bit Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.4 and up). I am trying out Numbers and find that it won't import this data because it is too large. What a let-down.

Check this review out, which offers some explanation.
http://macvswindows.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=132

Performance
As long as you weren't working with a lot of data (of about 1000 rows or more), Numbers operated beautifully. Start working with large sets of data and Numbers seemed to crawl to a pace. This made it annoying to work with the contents of a SQL dump file I created that had about 10,000 rows. Excel not only opened this file fine, the application was still very responsive.

Seems like Numbers is a heavy application...and I thought that was a fault of Excel.

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MacBook Pro
2.53GHz
4GB DDR RAM

 

[JediMeister]

One thing that a lot of iWork users are not aware of is that Numbers is very RAM dependent. The more RAM you have idle/installed the more information Numbers can process and read. Not saying that everyone who wants to open huge Excel files with Numbers needs to get a Mac Pro with 32 GB of RAM, but it may help for some people with older computer systems that are only running with 1 GB of RAM when they can upgrade to 2 or 4 GB in some cases.