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Excel limits the number of manual page breaks to 1026

Summary

Microsoft Office Excel has a limit of 1026 manual horizontal page breaks for a worksheet. In Excel 2007, a limit of manual page breaks is 1023. If you run a macro that attempts to exceed this limit, you may receive the following run-time error message:
Not Enough Memory.
Then, you may receive the following error message:
Run-time error '1004':
Application-defined or object-defined error
With Microsoft Excel 2002, you receive the following error message:
Run-time error '1004':
This action exceeds the number of page breaks you can manually add to a worksheet. A worksheet can contain up to 1026 horizontal page breaks.

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More Information

The following Excel Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro illustrates how the error might occur. 
Sub Test()
    Dim oSheet As Worksheet
    Set oSheet = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1)
    For i = 1 To 2000
        oSheet.HPageBreaks.Add oSheet.Rows(i + 1) '<- Error when i=1027
        Debug.Print i
    Next
End Sub

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Article Info
Article ID : 284916
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 9/11/2009
Exists online : False
Views : 157