I'm ashamed to post this here, but I'll delete it as soon as I get an answer and a hope that a bare minimum of people realise how dumb I really am.
I used to use Claris Works for simple spreadsheets. When I wanted a new spreadsheet the first question that came up was how many rows and columns do you want? This seemed so obvious that I never gave it any thought, I just used it. Now in Excel I want to create a spreadsheet so simple that a Word table would do almost the same job, but there are a couple of 1+1=2 formulas. So, given that I only want a maximum of eight columns with infinite rows, how do I avoid getting a page view full of columns I don't need?
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how humiliating 
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