Hello,
I have 9 page outline-bulletized questionnaire / form in Word with drop down
lists, text boxes, and check boxes. I've explored Excel's 'form making'
abilities and the data validation and really like the ability to manipulate
the replies/answers (sort, filter, etc.) and the ability to do it quickly and
comparatively painlessly. I would like to migrate the 9 page Word form into
Excel. I recognize that the text boxes and drop down lists won't survive the
move, but is there away to move the bulletized list while retaining the
indents and other formatting features to Excel? I've tried copying from Word
to Notepad, saving it there, and then opening with Excel, but the numbers,
letters, are all left aligned. Any solutions / ideas?
Many thanks in advance,
MJohn

Alternatively, a macro that would pull out all the user entered data from the
9-page Word file and drop that into a selected column in an Excel
file...would (maybe?) be easier?
Again, thanks ahead of time,
MJohn

"M John" wrote:

Hello,
I have 9 page outline-bulletized questionnaire / form in Word with drop down
lists, text boxes, and check boxes. I've explored Excel's 'form making'
abilities and the data validation and really like the ability to manipulate
the replies/answers (sort, filter, etc.) and the ability to do it quickly and
comparatively painlessly. I would like to migrate the 9 page Word form into
Excel. I recognize that the text boxes and drop down lists won't survive the
move, but is there away to move the bulletized list while retaining the
indents and other formatting features to Excel? I've tried copying from Word
to Notepad, saving it there, and then opening with Excel, but the numbers,
letters, are all left aligned. Any solutions / ideas?
Many thanks in advance,
MJohn

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"

This is 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.

If you have trouble implementing this, you may want to ask in one of the MSWord
newsgroups.

M John wrote:

Alternatively, a macro that would pull out all the user entered data from the
9-page Word file and drop that into a selected column in an Excel
file...would (maybe?) be easier?
Again, thanks ahead of time,
MJohn

"M John" wrote:

Hello,
I have 9 page outline-bulletized questionnaire / form in Word with drop down
lists, text boxes, and check boxes. I've explored Excel's 'form making'
abilities and the data validation and really like the ability to manipulate
the replies/answers (sort, filter, etc.) and the ability to do it quickly and
comparatively painlessly. I would like to migrate the 9 page Word form into
Excel. I recognize that the text boxes and drop down lists won't survive the
move, but is there away to move the bulletized list while retaining the
indents and other formatting features to Excel? I've tried copying from Word
to Notepad, saving it there, and then opening with Excel, but the numbers,
letters, are all left aligned. Any solutions / ideas?
Many thanks in advance,
MJohn

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Dave Peterson