It's 63 in Word 97 and 2000 as well. It was 31 for Word 95.

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"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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What version of Word? Before XP it was about 31; With XP it increased to
63.

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"ccorvette" wrote in message
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I meant to say the columns to the right become truncated and the heading
are
not readable. thanks

"ccorvette" wrote:

What is the maximun number of columns that you can use in a table.
When
I
use more than 35 the columns to the left become truncated.