1. Microsoft Excel Data Entry Form

Excel expert Dennis Taylor helps Excel for Mac 2016 users take their spreadsheet skills to the next level with this collection of tips and tricks. The course then dives into data entry. Below are the steps to create a new entry using the Data Entry Form in Excel: Select any cell in the Excel Table. Click on the Form icon in the Quick Access Toolbar. Enter the data in the form fields.

Excel for Microsoft 365 for Mac, Excel 2019 for Mac, Excel 2016 for Mac Excel for Mac 2011 You can create a form in Excel by adding content controls, such as buttons, check boxes, list boxes, and combo boxes to a workbook. I started using this code on my UserForms before Excel 2016 was released (Excel 2016 was the first version in which Mac and Windows user interfaces and VBA components actually looked alike). The Mac version was Excel 2011, and many of the UserForm controls looked awful, especially the MultiPage.

Where is Data Form in Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365?

Apply Data Form at ease if you have Classic Menu for Office

If you do not like the ribbon of Microsoft Office 2007/2010/2013; if your use habit is not valid in Ribbon so that you have to waste a lot of time to search for normal used commands, you’d better to try Classic Menu for Office. It will bring back classic menus and toolbar user interface into Ribbon. So it is easy to find out Data Form command from classic menus:

• Click the Data drop down menu under Menus tab;
• Then you will view the Form item .

Figure 1: Data Form feature in classic menu

Seek for Data Form from Ribbon if you do not have Classic Menu for Office

You can’t find out the Data Form command in Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 because it is not in Ribbon. If you want to apply this command, you need to customize the Ribbon:

• Step 1: Click the Office Button and Excel Options button in Microsoft Excel 2007 to enter the Excel Options window; Or you need to click the File tab and Options button in Microsoft Excel 2010 to enter the Excel Options;
• Step 2: Click the Customize button at left bar (Quick Access Toolbar in Excel 2010);
• Step 3: Select the Commands Not in the Ribbon from the Choose commands from drop down list;
• Step 4: Find out the Form… item from the command list;
• Step 5: Click the Add button;
• Step 6: Click the OK button to finish the customization.

Figure 2: add Data Form into QAT

Go back to the Microsoft Excel window; you will view the Data Form button has been added in the Quick Access Toolbar at the top of Excel Window.

Figure 3: Data Form button in QAT

Classic Menu for Office

Brings the familiar classic menus and toolbars back to Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365. You can use Office 2007/2010/2013/2016 immediately without any training. Supports all languages, and all new commands of 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 have been added into the classic interface.

Microsoft Excel Data Entry Form

Screen Shot of Classic Menu for Excel