[mso] Re: Collecting Data with Word and Converting to Excel

  • From: "Michele Wong" <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:44:03 -0700

I just want to make it as easy as possible for the people to use. I guess
they could use excel. The feedback they give has to go to their manager and
then he would forward the whole thing to me and I would tally up all the
info into one main spreadsheet and perform the calcualtions later.

Thanks,
Michele

-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Ray Blake
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:21 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Collecting Data with Word and Converting to Excel

Actually, what would be much easier would be collecting that sort of volume
of info in Excel in the first place, then copying each worksheet into a
master workbook, from where you can consolidate and analyse the data. Any
reason you need to collect it in Word?

Ray

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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Michele Wong
Sent: 09 July 2004 19:08
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Collecting Data with Word and Converting to Excel


I could have as many as 50 rows of data for each of the 20 people. Would the
coding be a better choice?

Thanks,
Michele

-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Ray Blake
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:01 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Collecting Data with Word and Converting to Excel

No programming is necessarily necessary, Michelle!

What you need to do though is include a table at the end of your document
which contains all the relevant info in a single line, like
this:

_____________________________________
| Ray | Blake | 24/07/67 | Blue | UK | Cycling |
_____________________________________

You get the picture, I'm sure. Get it all on one row, though. You can
populate the table using fields to pick up contents of fields on your main
form, and even hide this single-row table if you want.

When you want to get the data into Excel, simply unhide this row, then
convert the fields into text (CTRL+SHIFT+F9, I think) then select all the
cells, copy, open Excel to your main sheet, put the cursor in column A on
the first empty row, and paste. Job done.

This would become quickly tiresome for a large number of operations, but for
just 20, it's by far the most practical way to do it. Come back if you want
to do it for 100 users and we'll talk about a coded solution!

Ray
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GR Business Process Solutions
Ray Blake
Head of Software Design
ray@xxxxxxxxx
Braedon
Newell Road
Hemel Hempstead
Herts HP3 9PD
tel: 01442 396518
fax: 01442 389353
www.grbps.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Michele Wong
Sent: 09 July 2004 18:14
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Collecting Data with Word and Converting to Excel


I was wondering if it's possible to make a form in Word to collect
information from a group of 20 people and then dumping each piece of
information into a large excel spreadsheet? We want to manipulate the data
and that's why we want it in excel format. If that doesn't sound like it
would work, do you have any other ideas? Would this involve some
programming?

Thanks,
Michele B. Wong
Reliable Cyber Solutions, LLC
"We're only a click away!"
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michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 425.488.8078 phone 206.683.0624 mobile
801.705.1748 fax



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