Is the Best Free-Form Cell-Based Visual Board & Grid .... Excel ?!

Posted by washere
Aug 12, 2020 at 02:23 PM

Tom Maddox wrote:
What do you think of using Excel as an outliner? One that can include
>big blocks of text.

It’s possible. Have a look at DrAndus old reviews of “Outline 4D” if they’re still on his blog. Outline 4D, long abandoned but still selling. I think that dev fried his brain, or some personal stuff, or upgrading his stuff with Qt or GTK+ is too much work for him.

Nothing that sophisticated possible though I’d imagine unless coding a good deal. But sure. It’s possible, it’s a matter of making rows expandable and Collapsible. For tree levels, just move the text one column forward.

Also in Excel one can make a cell of text any size, look in whatever design one wants, etc. Also browsing sub grids is possible, in many ways. All without coding. Funnily, making a visual board in whatever design is actually easier, without any coding.

Of course many other benefits after setting up an initial Visual-Board or Outliner: import export galore, cloud, develop looks with templates in infinite ways, ......

For outlining:

https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2017/12/28/excel-group-rows/

https://www.google.com/search?&q=Excel+group+rows+collapsible+expandable