When you say spreadsheets, do you mean files or workbooks? If so, Excel does
not like large external databases.

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"Kim" wrote in message
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I have two vlookup functions in one spreadsheet linking data from two other
spreadsheets. I have 23K rows and I received an error of "Excel cannot
complete this task with available resources. Choose less data or close
other
applications." My IT department is saying that I should query data in a
table
(access) rather than storing data of 20K + rows using the Vlookup in
excel.
Shouldn't excel be able to handle 600K rows of data using the Vlookup
function?