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

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:02:26PM +0000, Colin Law 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?
> 
> In libreoffice calc there is a lot you can do to configure the layout,
> see the first couple of examples at [1] for example.
> 
The "Personal Checkbook Register 2.0" there is quite close to what I
want in some ways but there are a couple of niggles:-

    Saving the spreadsheet remembers most of the formatting but it
    *doesn't* remember if you hide unused columns.

    I opened it using gnumeric rather than libreoffice which works OK
    but it doesn't remember the window size so, even if you hide the
    unwanted columns by changing the window size they reappear the next
    time you open it.

    Is there a way to sort on the date and/or is there a way to pop up a
    date selection widget when entering the date?

-- 
Chris Green