Hi all,

Can I enter data interactively and dynamically?

To give an example:

Approach 1: Currently, when I enter grades for students, I have to find
his/her name first, after finding that row, I have to scroll the row to the
far right, since there are so many columns already there. Let's suppose
that I scroll to column 32, and it is often times hard to remain on the same
row(then I ended up entering a wrong score for this student ...) ; suppose I
scrolled successfully with my eyes staring at that row, and then I enter
score. And so on and so forth for the next student, etc. The whole process
is quite tedious and time-consuming and error prone.

Is there a data entry program in Excel that can help me with this situation?

Approach 2: I imagine a pop-up window, with auto-completion feature, I just
need to type the first a few letters of students' name, after only 3-4
key-strokes, it should find the right person, then I enter the score in a
place in this pop-up window, and then I hit ENTER the pop-up window save the
score data and prompts for my entry for the next student, so on and so
forth...
Finally the data will be stored automatically to the 32th column or any
other column I specify...

Then I don't have to scroll all the time...

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Is there such a program/feature existing somewhere on this planet?

Thanks a lot!