It is particularly beneficial to use data-entry forms when your data range or table has many columns. A standard data-entry form in Excel looks similar to the screenshot below. (To follow along, ...

Automated Data Entry in Excel. One way businesses can save time and money is using Excel spreadsheets as data tables in which to store customer information, inventory details or other important data.

You can use a data entry form to enter new records, edit existing data, and delete existing records. Unfortunately, Excel’s automated data entry forms don’t support AutoComplete the way lists do.

If you support users who have trouble entering data and printing an Excel sheet, use this eight-step approach to create a foolproof form.

Then we add TableItem s—consisting of rows of data—to the Table. For the data entry form, we also add a series of TableColumn objects, which display as gray buttons on the first row.