Calling all Excel/Powerpoint Experts

I need some help converting some paper work from word to excel or powerpoint. I basically want to be able to fill in the blanks without having the stationary words moving around. Can you help me? Do you know someone who can? If so, I will send you what I have.

Thanks in advance

I'm pretty good with Office, so send what you got I'll see what I can do.

prs@cavtel.net

Hey Mike, I just got your document and the first couple of solutions didn't work. I am having trouble due to the fact the form is broken up into text boxes. I'll try a few more things, but it seems that your best bet would be to construct a small database in Access and produce a form there. Do you have Access and are you familiar with it? If you do have Access I could fix you up sample database with a form and send it.

If you send it over to me and let me know what you are trying to accomplish, I can help you. I used to be a corporate trainer for excel, word and powerpoint.


JMBrowne@Roofcleaning.biz

Try saving the file as, or converting it to, a .txt file.

Then edit it, removing any garbage, and aligning the conlums, row by row (make sure to select all your text, and change everyting to a block type font such as Courier New).

Then, save it and convert it to excel. Works every time!

For a reasonable fee, you could probably have somebody do it for you, but you can do it yourself, for free.

If the file isn't that big, just follow the directions above and you'll be fine.

Best Regards,
Paul Freeman

Mike , The Excell is designed for spread sheets, that is what I use for price sheets and inventory. The Powerpoint is more for presentations. It is like anything it will take some time and pratice, I am still learning. There is a company called ExecuTrain that teaches classes on both. I has some of their text books given to me. I am sure if you entered it in an search engine you would find out more.

Thanks everyone for the help and information. I have been sitting here for a few hours trying to teach myself how to do this. And to I am getting a little fa-clempt,lol to say the least.

If you have your documents in Word and all you would like to do is fill in fields, but keep everything else the same, then you can insert "fields" and save the document as a template.

Look up "Forms" in the help menu and it will walk you through the process.


If you have the time, money, and computer savvy, I would highly recommend that you look into classes for MS Access, which can help you to integrate your info from Word and Excel into a manageable database. Working from a database will be easier and much more productive!