It is particularly beneficial to use data-entry forms when your data range or table has many columns. A standard data-entry form in Excel looks similar to the screenshot below. (To follow along, ...

Using forms in Excel not only makes data entry faster but also reduces the likelihood of errors. With a well-designed form, you can ensure that data is entered consistently and accurately, ...

Automating Data Entry with Macros. To fully automate your data entry form, you can use Excel’s built-in macro functionality. Macros allow you to record a series of actions and then replay them ...

If you support users who have trouble entering data and printing an Excel sheet, use this eight-step approach to create a foolproof form. It’s just too easy to kvetch about how incompetent some ...

You can use a data entry form to enter new records, edit existing data, and delete existing records. Unfortunately, Excel’s automated data entry forms don’t support AutoComplete the way lists do.

Automated Data Entry in Excel. One way businesses can save time and money is using Excel spreadsheets as data tables in which to store customer information, inventory details or other important data.

Using Freeze Panes and Focus Cell simultaneously guarantees you won't enter data into the wrong cell. Excel's Focus Cell ...

Data forms provide an alternative option for data entry in your Excel spreadsheet. Instead of scrolling from right to left in a wide row of fields, use a data form to view one record at a time.

Microsoft announced improvements to using Excel and Forms together, which include a bump up in performance. Microsoft will ...

If you find entering data into spreadsheets to be mind-numbing drudgery, then you probably don't know about these cool, time-saving tricks that make Excel 2010 do the heavy lifting for you.