Q:\>perl -le "print $_ for 1..16383" >list.xls Q:\>start list.xls Q:\>perl -le "print $_ for 1..32768" >list.xls Q:\>start list.xls Q:\>perl -le "print $_ for 1..70000" >list.xls Q:\>start list.xls # "Excel did not load the whole file"