[mso] Re: Collecting Data with Word and Converting to Excel
- From: "Ray Blake" <ray@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:01:06 +0100
Michelle,
If you can, DEFINITELY do it the Excel way. It will save a ton of grief.
You can make it look just as pretty as a Word form, put in data
validation and protect all the cells except the ones you want data in. I
just did one of these today for a data gathering exercise, actually.
When they come back in, just copy each worksheet into a new workbook and
use the Consolidation feature to go from there.
Ray
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Michele Wong
Sent: 09 July 2004 19:44
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Collecting Data with Word and Converting to Excel
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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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 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
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