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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Do we actually know where the issue arose before we start analysing recruitment in the civil service? Various private companies have been involved in the Track and Trace project too.
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Didn't you
see, read, and comprehend, my link and quote?
The issue has been identified with PHE turning the perfectly ok text files into a spreadsheet format and using an old Excel file format(2003 or older) to do it.
The dilemma might have been using a format that most people could deal with. In that sense using an older format, might've seemed appropriate.
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A worksheet in Microsoft Excel can contain maximum 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns. This limit is applicable on Office 365 and newer versions of Microsoft Office such as Excel 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007. Older versions such as Excel 2003, Excel XP (2002), Excel 2000, Excel 97 contained a limit of maximum 65,536 rows and 256 columns. Classic Excel 95 and Excel 5 versions came with a limit of maximum 16,384 rows and 256 columns.
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