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

[Chris Green]

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).

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Chris Green