Abstract: A medical image and data system including a configurable tabular form editor (19) which creates a table (35) divided into multiple cells (34, 35, 36, 37). A data selection menu (29) appears when a cell (34) is highlighted with a mouse type pointing device. Real time data may be inserted into a selected cell and the cell (46) may be manually resized by the user, causing adjacent cells (45) to be automatically redimensioned to accommodate the manually resized cell (46) as data within the other cells (45). A large multiple cell table (44) may be created by using a flexible form menu (10). Data may be inserted into a multiple cell table (65) which may itself be inserted into a cell of another table (67). All cell and data selections may be performed with the mouse pointing device.