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

[Ric Moore]

On 03/14/2013 02:28 PM, 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.


kinda like tabs?? This is OT from what the OP is asking and I feel his 
pain. I too would like to know how to prevent the #$^#&%& spreadsheet 
from opening up a zillion extra columns and rows.

SuperCalc, back in the day, didn't do that. <grins> Ric



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