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Yes, the UCINET spreadsheet can easily handle 913 rows and columns. BTW, in
the interest of not cluttering up SOCNET with technical support questions
for particular programs, there is a user's group for UCINET. Visit
www.analytictech.com/ucinet.htm and click on user's group. There are around
400 members and the archive currently contains about 750 messages asking and
answering UCINET, NETDRAW and Pajek questions.

But as Balazs has noted, when dealing with large networks it is usually more
efficient and convenient to use nodelist and edgelist formats (see UCINET
user's guide chapter 3). This is because most large networks are not very
dense, which means that in matrix form they are mostly zeros. The nodelist
and edgelist formats avoid having to type in all the non-relationships.

Steve.

Steve Borgatti
Org Studies, Boston College
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of elijah wright
>Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:28 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [SOCNET] help: need to find spreadsheet program for 913
>columns
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>> I am trying to create a 913 x 913 blank matrix but can't do it in an
>> Excel spreadsheet, which only allows for 256 columns. I have a list of
>> 913 names and want to transpose those 913 "rows" and create 913 columns,
>> so that I can have the matrix I need. But this is not possible with
>> Excel. I checked out UCINET, but the spreadsheet editor is limited to
>> 255 columns.
>
>i seem to recall that that limitation of ucinet had gotten removed in one
>of the later 6.x releases.
>
>[yes, guys, this means that i actually read changelogs with new releases
>:) ]
>
>one of the analytictech folk will probably be able to confirm for sure.
>[it might be that you can use bigger data, but not edit it in the
>spreadsheet windows.  i can see that happening, for sure.]
>
>--elijah
>
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