Need a Concatenating VBA code to prevent memory issue workaround

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Published on 2009-12-06T22:04:48Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 7:04 UTC
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My set up: Have 50,000 rows of data. ( My row count will increase in the future. So might as well say I have a full worksheet of 64000+ rows.) All Data is TEXT, no formulas, etc.

Column A is open Columns B thru AC contain the Data that needs to be concatenated The Data in the rows once concatenated to Column A will contain 60,000 digits or 6kb in file size. After additional maniuplation each cell will become a file.

I have tried concatenating in Excel and I run into memory issues. The memory issue is when I Select and fill down the concatenating function into the worksheet. It crashes at the 8200 +/-row. My system is 2gb of ram, windows xp professional and Excel 2003. Have 4GB of disk space

Hoping to find a VBA code that will conserve memory, and not crash like it does in excel.

Thank you

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