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

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 06:28:41PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thinking a bit more about what I want it could also be described as a
spreadsheet where it's easy to hide all empty rows and columns.  I can't
see any way to do even that with most spreadsheets.

-- 
Chris Green