Hello,

I was wondering if there is a way to create a data entry form like in excel 
in Word 2003?  To renew my license I have to type my conferences in the 
format below.  I want to create a tool for our staff that is easy to use for 
someone who is not real computer literate.  I know there are many people who 
still don't know how to R click copy/paste but I believe they all have used 
Word at some time or another.  I would like to have them enter the info in a 
form and then have it concatenate like excel or access does so they can 
easily copy and paste it right from their document.  I would like the 
document to be a template so they can just open it up from our intranet 
website and save it to their own home drive.  I am thinking that maybe 
Access would be my best tool but if word can do it, I think the staff would 
be better able to handle that.  I'll post on the access and excel group too 
to see what option best works for me as I am kind of a novice in all 3 
programs.

List your CE courses using the following format: Course title, Date of 
Course, Number of Hours, Accrediting Body. If you list more than one course, 
separate courses with a semicolon.

For example:

Legal and Ethical Considerations for the Respiratory Therapist, 10/22/08, 2, 
AARC; After the Diagnosis, 09/30/08, 3.5, Ohio Nurses Association; Northwest 
District Seminar V, 09/09/09, 6, AARC; Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A 
Disease with Increasing Hope (113), 06/29/09, 1, AARC

  1.. Type the required information in a text based program.  Any text 
program will do.  We suggested WORD or WORDPAD, but any text based program 
works.  The point is to be able to copy and paste once the formatted text is 
ready.  Type the information in a single string of text, no hard returns or 
lines.  Also, ABBREVIATE, ABBREVIATE, ABBREVIATE.  The system only takes 
1000 characters and we do not mind if you significantly abbreviate course 
titles.  Cut (or Copy) and Paste the information in the entry box on the 
online system.
Thanks,
Linda 

I would create a template with a User form that contained text boxes for 
each of the Course title, Date of Course, Number of Hours and Accrediting 
Body and a Listbox and a command button that added the information entered 
by the user into the text boxes into the List box, separating each item with 
a comma and a space.  Then when they had entered all of the courses, they 
would click on another button that would take all of the information from 
the list box and insert it into the required place in the document.

See the article "How to create a Userform" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm

and the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website :

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and_employ_a_UserForm.htm

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm


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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Linda RQ" <RomulanQueen@10Forward.SSTNG> wrote in message 
news:ePqGSNeyKHA.5936@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to create a data entry form like in 
> excel in Word 2003?  To renew my license I have to type my conferences in 
> the format below.  I want to create a tool for our staff that is easy to 
> use for someone who is not real computer literate.  I know there are many 
> people who still don't know how to R click copy/paste but I believe they 
> all have used Word at some time or another.  I would like to have them 
> enter the info in a form and then have it concatenate like excel or access 
> does so they can easily copy and paste it right from their document.  I 
> would like the document to be a template so they can just open it up from 
> our intranet website and save it to their own home drive.  I am thinking 
> that maybe Access would be my best tool but if word can do it, I think the 
> staff would be better able to handle that.  I'll post on the access and 
> excel group too to see what option best works for me as I am kind of a 
> novice in all 3 programs.
>
> List your CE courses using the following format: Course title, Date of 
> Course, Number of Hours, Accrediting Body. If you list more than one 
> course, separate courses with a semicolon.
>
> For example:
>
> Legal and Ethical Considerations for the Respiratory Therapist, 10/22/08, 
> 2, AARC; After the Diagnosis, 09/30/08, 3.5, Ohio Nurses Association; 
> Northwest District Seminar V, 09/09/09, 6, AARC; Pulmonary Arterial 
> Hypertension: A Disease with Increasing Hope (113), 06/29/09, 1, AARC
>
>  1.. Type the required information in a text based program.  Any text 
> program will do.  We suggested WORD or WORDPAD, but any text based program 
> works.  The point is to be able to copy and paste once the formatted text 
> is ready.  Type the information in a single string of text, no hard 
> returns or lines.  Also, ABBREVIATE, ABBREVIATE, ABBREVIATE.  The system 
> only takes 1000 characters and we do not mind if you significantly 
> abbreviate course titles.  Cut (or Copy) and Paste the information in the 
> entry box on the online system.
> Thanks,
> Linda
>