It had its problems, but Apple's Numbers product got this right I feel - it was a kind of blend between desktop publishing and spreadsheets, where you could sca

It had its problems, but Apple's Numbers product got this right I feel - it was a kind of blend between desktop publishing and spreadsheets, where you could scatter arbitrary tables of data around a page and then have them refer to each other. I suspect a lot of people who are throwing multiple tables of data in the same sheet are doing so because they want both of them to be visible at once.