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What use is the data form in excel?
What use is the data form in excel. I've just started the excel expert
online course and it shows you how to create lists using data forms. But why do you need a function like this when you can just type straight into excel? Am I missing something here? |
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What use is the data form in excel?
It just allows a reasonably friendly interface into the data, handling
next/previous, deleting and adding all in a familiar form style. Some users like that sort of thing. -- HTH Bob Phillips (remove nothere from email address if mailing direct) "carl" wrote in message ... What use is the data form in excel. I've just started the excel expert online course and it shows you how to create lists using data forms. But why do you need a function like this when you can just type straight into excel? Am I missing something here? |
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What use is the data form in excel?
That would be fair enough if it entering data into cells wasn't already
userfriendly enough in Excel. This seems to be a case of adding a facility for no apparent reason. It's actually easier to create a list without the data form because you can copy and paste and drag down etc. outwith the data form. |
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What use is the data form in excel?
Agreed Carl, but some users are not that proficient, really! It does stop
them messing up. -- HTH Bob Phillips (remove nothere from email address if mailing direct) "carl" wrote in message ... That would be fair enough if it entering data into cells wasn't already userfriendly enough in Excel. This seems to be a case of adding a facility for no apparent reason. It's actually easier to create a list without the data form because you can copy and paste and drag down etc. outwith the data form. |
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What use is the data form in excel?
Lol! Fair enough. But what's harder; typing information directly into cells
and then giving it a once over, or reading through manuals and doing online excel courses in order to find out whether there is a function called 'data form'? I've been using excel since it first came out and only recently found out what it was for. "Bob Phillips" wrote: Agreed Carl, but some users are not that proficient, really! It does stop them messing up. -- HTH Bob Phillips (remove nothere from email address if mailing direct) "carl" wrote in message ... That would be fair enough if it entering data into cells wasn't already userfriendly enough in Excel. This seems to be a case of adding a facility for no apparent reason. It's actually easier to create a list without the data form because you can copy and paste and drag down etc. outwith the data form. |
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