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

[Colin Law]

On 15 March 2013 14:08, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:46:24PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> Another problem, it fails completely if you insert a row (quite likely
> if you don't get them in date order).

It is beyond my knowledge boundaries I am afraid.  Is there a
libreoffice list or forum you could ask?

Colin