Excel 12: Data Entry Form?

[Timoleon]

Help! I'm here at work and I've just upgraded from Microsoft Office
2003 to Microsoft Office 12 pre-release edition. For the life of me, I
can't figure out how to open a data entry form in Excel 12! In previous
versions of Excel it was easy --- just click on Tools->Form. But in the
Tools grouping in the new Excel there doesn't seem to be any comparable
thing.

Can anyone help me? Maybe it's the dementia kicking in, but I need to
enter a whole lot of data today into my spreadsheet and my boss is going
to have my head, etc...

Thanks!
Tim

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

I have it at home so I can't help you at the moment but the form has never
been under tools, it was under the file menu data

 

[Bob Phillips]

Are you mad? You have deadlines, important business data, and you are using
a pre-release version of Office 12 to process it? This software still has
many bugs that need to be ironed out in the many testing phases it has yet
to go through, and the file format is not guaranteed. You are asking for
trouble.

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HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)

 

[Timoleon]

Are you mad? You have deadlines, important business data, and you are using
a pre-release version of Office 12 to process it? This software still has
many bugs that need to be ironed out in the many testing phases it has yet
to go through, and the file format is not guaranteed. You are asking for
trouble.

I am most assuredly mad! By the way, Excel 2003 had the form listed
under Data, not Tools.
Data -> Form
Still, I would like this madness to end. Does anybody have any idea how
to find the data entry form in Excel 12? It seems so crucial and basic
to using the program, but I'll be damned if I can figure it out.
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking, and I can smell my bosses' hot breath
in the distance... (help!!)

Tim

 

[Dave Peterson]

Before you go too far, isn't there a private discussion board for testers of
office 12?

I would think that you would have to be very careful not to break any NDA you
have--no matter how minor it may seem to you.

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

If indeed the OP is a beta tester then he should have access to the
beta web page and have a user id and can create a password for the beta
newsgroups

 

[Timoleon]

If indeed the OP is a beta tester then he should have access to the
beta web page and have a user id and can create a password for the beta
newsgroups

Thanks, guys -- I forgot about the beta groups. I'll go over to
Microsoft and get my user id.

Tim

 

[Adam]

Hehe your nuts!

I installed that pre-release version of Office 12 and have just
uninstalled it. Its not finished yet!

Back to a nice working version of Office 2003, at least I know where
everything is !

 

[Ken Wright]

It is sheer lunacy to try and use the O12 PR in a working environment as
anything other than a testbed. I'd be surprised it it wasn't grounds for
dismissal in many companies that have shareholders, as you are effectively
entrusting financial data to a release that is not only not final but also
not supported. Corporate Governence issues sort of spring to mind here.
Personally, if someone in my team tried that stunt, I'd have them fired.

I installed that pre-release version of Office 12 and have just
uninstalled it. Its not finished yet!

Of course it isn't - why do you think it's tagged as pre-release?

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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[Ken Wright]

In my company you would be fired for this. That is lunacy. Use it as a
test bed by all means, but NEVER EVER entrust real financial data to a buggy
Pre Release version of anything.

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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[Bob Phillips]

Good grief, you are verbose. I said the same thing in 3 words )

Bob

 

[Ken Wright]

LOL - That just beggars belief though.

Regards
Ken............

 

[Bob Phillips]

I certainly agree with you there. But even when pointed out to him he didn't
see it, and kept going until he finally got fed up with the problems.

Bob