Creating an Empty Spreadsheet

[Andi]

Is there a way to create something similar to a blank table in Revit? I love all the scheduling and keynote features but sometimes I just want a blank canvass.
An example is zoning requirements. Right now, my office has an excel template with all the zoning and code categories. We input the project specific details for each and then have to screenshot the excel sheet and paste it onto a Revit sheet. There has to be a better way. A fully manual table would be best for me but any suggestions are welcome.
Thank you!

[Bill Gilliss]

This is one of the MOST-REQUESTED features that Revit lacks, but the development team has repeatedly deemed it not worthy. 50 lines of C++ code would do it - a matrix of cells with word wrap. Sheesh...

There's a work around you'll find that involves creating a schedule for some category you'll never use, then populating it with empty rows you can fill out however you want.

[Steve_Stafford]

As mentioned the Title portion of a schedule (http://revitoped.blogspot.com/2013/04/tables-of-data-in-revit.html) that is filtered out so nothing is listed can be edited much like Excel. Another approach is IDEATE Sticky which creates a schedule of this type from an external Excel file. Create the Excel file, create the Sticky Schedule, point it at the Excel file. Edit Excel, update Sticky...repeat.

Another way is to build a "block with attributes (http://revitoped.blogspot.com/2011/01/annotation-symbol-as-schedule.html)" (General Annotation family) that contains text and parameters that you fill in as required. The more consistent the form you need is the easier it is to build it "once" and reuse it...no schedule required at all. If you get clever it can do the math an Excel file might be used to do too.