Tool that allows for tabular information, showing/hiding of rows/cols, and formatted text in cells ?

ndodge

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Often I have some information that is best viewed/edited in a table layout. I've tried MS Word, but hiding/showing rows/columns is not really possible that I know of (except for a cludgy approach to make text hidden and miminize row/col size). MS Excel actually looked promising, as hiding/showing rows/columns is built in and works well. However, some of my cells need to contain a fair amount of text, and ideally indented bulleted lists (well, ideally, a mini outline in each cell, but I'm not expecting that ability). Excel just does not handle well any amount of formatted text within a cell. OneNote is another option, but I've found that it isn't mature enough yet (when I make tables I find myself fighting the tool constantly to get column widths as I want them, and although it has expand/collapse of bulleted lists, the outlining function is very crude and gives no indication that a level is collapsed).
So, my end question is, wondering if there are other tools out there as alternatives ? Something like MS Word tables that allow for show/hide, or something like Excel where formatted text within a cell is more supported.
 

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