OpenOffice and LibreOffice are both free office suites that support the OpenDocument format. See How to Install Open Office for detailed instructions on installing OpenOffice for free.
Even though only a small range of cells is shown in WordPad, the range will expand as you add data outside of the displayed range. If the table is smaller than the initial range, the table will shrink to fit your data.
You can create headers by bolding the contents of the first row in the spreadsheet program.
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Pressing Tab ↹ while in the last cell will create a new row. Continuing to press Tab ↹ will move to the next available cell, creating a new row when you reach the end of the last row of the table.
You can also save it as a OpenOffice XML Document (. docx), which can be opened in Word.