Instructions on how to create input forms in Excel extremely fast and simple

Creating an input form in Excel is a very necessary tip if you are an accountant or office worker. It helps you to make statistics and input data for Excel simpler and faster. Below, TipsMake will guide you the most basic steps to create a simple input form.

Before creating the input form, you need to have a premise for your data table, which is the title for the data columns. Below, TipsMake will set up a temporary 5-column data table to show you how to create the input form.

5 data columns including Last Name, First Name, Age, Job and Salary. You highlighted 5 parameter boxes containing the title, then some Insert ribbon on the toolbar.

Next click on the Table icon in the Tables section of the Insert ribbon .

Excel will ask you where the data table area is, if you have done the first step of selecting the data header area, you do not need to change the Where is the data for your table . You just need to put a check mark in front of the My table has header line .

Then click OK to confirm, so the data table creation is complete.

Next you need to open the Input Form function on the existing data sheet. Because this function does not have shortcuts to the ribbon in the toolbar, you need to create shortcuts for it.

You click on File on the toolbar.

After entering File , click the Options line to open the Excel Options function dialog box .

In the dialog box function Excel Options , you open the Quick Access Toolbar item because we will lead the Form to the quick function table of Excel.

Change the Choose commands from section to All Commands .

Then you scroll down the list below to find the form . The list of Customize the Quick Access Toolbar is arranged in alphabetical order, so you can find the function groups with the first F to find the Form easier.

After finding the form , select it and then click Add next to the list. This will help you add the Form to the Quick Access Toolbar .

Finally click OK to confirm the last change of settings.

You will see the Form icon appear on the quick function panel in the corner of the Excel Quick Access Toolbar interface .

Click on it to enable the input form .

The input table will appear with the named fields, you just need to fill in the data for those fields. Then click on Criteria to insert that data into your existing data sheet.

Then to continue creating a new data, you can click on New .

With the newly created line, you again enter the same data as above and click on Criteria to create a new data.

If you want to delete a data stream, you need to use Find Prev (move forward) and Find Next (move forward) to select the data line you want to delete. Then click on Delete to delete the data.

Thank you for reading the article of TipsMake on how to create a simple input form in Excel. Wish you can successfully implement this simple trick.