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Dave Peterson
 
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Default Put form fields in Word forms into an Excel spreadsheet?

I've never used this, but someone (I think Debra Dalgleish) once suggested just
saving the data in MSWord.

Inside MSWord (with your document active):
tools|options|Save Tab|Check "Save data only for forms"

From MSWord 2003's help:

Save data only for forms Saves the data entered into an online form as a
single, tab-delimited text file in plain text format. You can then import the
contents of that file into a database for analysis.

It sounds like that's what you want.

(I have no experience with quickbooks.)

AMG wrote:

I have multiple Microsoft Word 2002 forms with the data in form fields. I
would like to convert the data into Excel 2002 so that the data from text1,
text3, etc., are placed in an Excel table with each document's form fields in
a line of Excel. I hope to be able to import the Excel Spreadsheet into
Quickbooks 2005 as invoice data.


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Dave Peterson