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Chapter 5Unlocking the BigGridExcel 2007 offers more rows and columns.That is an understatement.This table shows the magnitude of the increase, but I am not sure that numbers do it justice.Excel 97-2003 Excel 2007 % ChangeRows 65,536 1,084,576 1500%Columns 256 16,384 25500%Cells 16.7 Million 17.2 Billion 102300%In case you wondered how Microsoft comes up with numbers such as 16,384 and 1,084,576, theseare powers of 2. There are 2^20 rows and 2^14 columns.In the prior version of Excel, you could not have daily dates for one year stretching across thecolumns. In the new version, you can show weekdays for 46 years before you run into the lastcolumn (XFD).This chart helps you to visualize how large the new grid is. The green area is the size of oneworksheet in the new Excel. The tiny yellow box in the lower left corner is the size of one worksheetin the old Excel.Figure 5.1The yellow is the size of the oldExcel grid. The green is the sizeof the new Excel grid.