rweatherly,
Does the Express version let you add controls/components? For example, normal
VB 6 allows you to add controls/components (with Ctrl-T). There are some "Microsoft Windows Common Controls" in mscomctl.ocx, mscomct2.ocx, etc that you may want to look at. Somewhere there is a grid control if you were longing for the Excel look and feel. A google search may turn up a grid-control that you could download for cheap or free.
Otherwise, I like Megahertz suggestion. I think it would be a good interface and you could always add a right-click "import" and "export" command to deal with text files later on.