# Exporting all documents from index but Excel is limited

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-all-documents-from-index-but-excel-is-limited/241855>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 20, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-all-documents-from-index-but-excel-is-limited/241855 "2020-07-20T08:27:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![ion\_popa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@ion\_popa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ion_popa)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-all-documents-from-index-but-excel-is-limited/241855/1 "2020-07-20T08:27:37Z")

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Hello,

I've been assigned a task to export all the documents from an index to a .csv file so I'm using Logstash for that but when I open up the .csv using Excel, I've reached the limit of 1,048,576 rows per sheet and I have more documents than that in the index.

What options do I have to add the remaining documents to another sheet in the same file maybe ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![AClerk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aclerk/32/55297_2.png) [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 4:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-all-documents-from-index-but-excel-is-limited/241855/2 "2020-07-22T04:17:57Z")

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CSV file have no limit in the number of rows added to it.  
Try to open with notepad.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 4:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-all-documents-from-index-but-excel-is-limited/241855/3 "2020-08-19T04:17:58Z")

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