Simple (web?) application for producing something like a bank statement - ideas?

[Chris Green]

> 
> a spreadsheet is probably the best solution.  If you enter the formula
> in the top cell of the running balance column yoiu can use the drag
> handle to automatically enter the appropriate formula in all the cells
> below it; you don't need to enter the formula in each cell manually.
> 
But the cells aren't there below it until the 'next line' has been entered.

I don't want a huge table of emptiness with just a few rows and columns
with data in them (as seems to be the norm with most Spreadsheet use I
have seen).  

When there are (say) eight debit/credit entries in my table I just want
to see eight rows in the spreadsheet with (probably) just three or four
columns.

If I understand you correctly you are saying one should copy the formula
for the running balance into the Balance column for lots of columns into
the future - is this right?

Another issue is that the formula is *different* for the running balance
as you go down isn't it as it's the sum of all rows up to and including
the current row and the current row changes as you go down the table.  I
seem to remember there isn't an easy way to code this in most
spreadsheets.

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Chris Green