increasing no of columns to 16384

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On 03/09/19 14:36, Noel Grandin wrote:
> 
>>    What does Excel do for that ? (perhaps check names before columns or
> something(?) or de-mangle and check names).
> 
> No idea. Apparently Excel clamps old documents to 1024 columns. We may
> need to do something similar i.e. have an option to explicitly enable
>>1024 columns.

Just a suggestion ... is MaxColumns a parameter?

Can't you - as part of opening the file - scan the user names for
collisions and set MaxColumns accordingly?

Cheers,
Wol