Bug 47588

Summary:	Calc stops indexing VLOOKUP in xls format after 65536 rows
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Cor Nouws <cno>
Component:	Spreadsheet	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	cno
Version:	3.3.0 release
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	original ods resulting .xls with #REF!

Description Cor Nouws 2012-03-20 08:09:57 UTC

Attached an ods spreadsheet with in 
  B3   =VLOOKUP(A4;Sheet2.$A$1:$B$65536;2)
and in 
  B4   =VLOOKUP(A4;Sheet2.$A$1:$B$65537;2)

Steps:
1 - Save document as xls (MS 97/2000/2003)
2 - Close and open document
   > B3 shows correct value and B4 #REF!

The original .ods does not have this problem

Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2012-03-20 08:14:58 UTC

Created attachment 58758 [details]
original ods

Comment 2 Cor Nouws 2012-03-20 08:16:21 UTC

Created attachment 58759 [details]
resulting .xls with #REF!

Comment 3 QA Administrators 2014-10-24 03:18:24 UTC

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Comment 4 Cor Nouws 2014-10-24 12:34:34 UTC

The problem is still present in 4.3.3.1, Linux.

Related to, maybe even justified by, the fact that xls originally didn't support nRows > 65536 ?

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