Will the #PASTE command append columns if the specified columns do not exist?

This command will not append columns if the specified columns do not exist. Instead it will begin pasting into the last physical column. If you wanted to paste data into c44, but it does not exist, you could add the following commands to append enough empty columns for this to be successful:

cell(0, 44) = 1;
#CLEARDATA
0 1 44 44
#END