This is a small ask, but it reveals a large truth about the tools we tolerate. A user on Reddit wants Excel to remember that one spreadsheet ends at column R and another ends at column J. Instead, the program stubbornly opens every file at whatever size the last file used. That is a failure of memory, and more importantly, a failure of respect for the user's time. Our opinion is plain: a tool that cannot remember the shape of your work is not a partner in productivity, it is a hurdle you have to clear every single day.
The person asking this question is not demanding a new feature or a complex macro. They are asking for basic spatial intelligence. They have two documents, each with a natural boundary, and they need the software to recognize that boundary on its own. This is not a niche request. Anyone who works across multiple spreadsheets, a budget sheet that goes to column R, a contact list that stops at column J, has felt this friction. You resize the window, you scroll to the relevant area, and the next time you open the file, Excel forgets. It defaults to whatever the previous session left behind. That is not a bug. It is a design assumption that every spreadsheet is the same, and every session is interchangeable. That assumption is wrong.
The deeper issue here is what we accept from legacy tools. We have been trained to solve these friction points ourselves, with VBA, with macros, with workarounds that take hours to build and seconds to break. But the user asking this question should not have to "code" their spreadsheets to remember their own dimensions. That is the software's job. When a tool offloads basic memory tasks onto the person using it, it is no longer a tool. It becomes a task itself. The real innovation in spreadsheet technology is not about adding more functions. It is about removing these small, grinding inefficiencies that cost attention across every working day.
An AI-native spreadsheet does not wait to be told what size a file should be. It observes the data inside the file, understands its structure, and opens to the view that makes sense for that specific document. It remembers that one report ends at column R and another ends at column J, because it treats each spreadsheet as a unique environment, not a blank canvas. That is the standard we should expect. Stop asking your users to write code for the privilege of not resizing a window. Let the spreadsheet do the remembering. That is what it is for.