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heavyuser
Hi all - apologies if this is a FAQ question, was unable to find good
answers there.
My organization often needs to distribute various 'forms' designed in
Excel. People will fill them in, (often print a copy and) send the
filled-in sheets back to us.
There are a lot of problems with this: people will modify stuff where
they're not supposed to, will leave 'mandatory' options blank, and the
process of copying/pasting data for further processing once we get the
filled in sheet is laborious.
For various reasons we need to stay with Excel (i.e. Access, or redoing
everything as web-based, is not an option). What is the best way to
design forms in Excel, provide some constraints to fields (e.g.
'required', or 'must be a number') without extensive VBA coding, and
without having to lock/unlock and password protect everything?
I imagine lots of people have this problem. Any 3rd party solutions,
free or not free, are appreciated too.
answers there.
My organization often needs to distribute various 'forms' designed in
Excel. People will fill them in, (often print a copy and) send the
filled-in sheets back to us.
There are a lot of problems with this: people will modify stuff where
they're not supposed to, will leave 'mandatory' options blank, and the
process of copying/pasting data for further processing once we get the
filled in sheet is laborious.
For various reasons we need to stay with Excel (i.e. Access, or redoing
everything as web-based, is not an option). What is the best way to
design forms in Excel, provide some constraints to fields (e.g.
'required', or 'must be a number') without extensive VBA coding, and
without having to lock/unlock and password protect everything?
I imagine lots of people have this problem. Any 3rd party solutions,
free or not free, are appreciated too.