Alternatively you can pipe the Xess spreadsheet print file through a conversion utility such as GhostScript. This can be set up as a printer definition within Xess so that the conversion process is completely transparent. You can have up to 20 definitions. Note that you can use a printer definition to pipe a spreadsheet output to another application. Xess contains a class of functions called Embedded Tools to accomplish these tasks.
More information is available in online help .
Xess does not impose any artifical limits. Environmental issues including the amount of available memory are the pacing items. When I am importing a text file or even selecting and pasting a text string from another window into a cell, each word goes into a separate cell. I wanted the entire string of words in a single cell. You can control parsing of text strings with either import method using the Import Options dialog from the Options menu.