Excel Row Limit: Max Rows & Columns Per Sheet (2026)
Excel worksheets hold 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns (column XFD) — about 17.2 billion cells. Here are the real limits and what to do with bigger data.
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Excel worksheets hold 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns (column XFD) — about 17.2 billion cells. Here are the real limits and what to do with bigger data.
Google Sheets caps spreadsheets at 10 million cells total across all tabs and 18,278 columns (column ZZZ). See the rows, import and per-cell limits for 2026.