Spreadsheet that starts 'empty' and grows as you enter data - is there such a beast?

[Liam Proven]

On 14 March 2013 18:10, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> I'm after a spreadsheet that starts in a sort of minimal mode and that
> you have to grow as you enter data.
>
> I just want five columns and one or more rows with the number of rows
> simply increasing as you enter more data.
>
> I don't want zillions of empty columns and rows (or hidden 'tables') and
> I don't really want big complex toolbars either.
>
> Can anyone suggest anything that might fulfil this need?


There *used* to be one. It was called Lotus Improv, a NeXTstep
⒩-dimensional spreadsheet later ported to Windows.

But because it didn't start out as a 2D grid - it was multidimension,
you added dimensions as you went - it melted the brains of existing
spreadsheet users, so it never caught on and died.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv

I don't know of anything else like it.




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