Hi everyone!
First off may I just say that you have a fantastic forum here! I was just browsing through a load of your posts and you all seem really helpful, so I figured i'd ask for some help!
I'm 20 years old, with quite basic computer knowledge; I know my way round a computer and some simple computer programing language, but that's about as far as my knowledge goes!
I just started a new job, and i've been given the mundane task of data entry, but I figured that I may still be able to impress my new boss with some nifty features.
The spreadsheet i'm working on has over 1000 fields, so rather than people who open it having to trawl through every field just to find the relevant information, I figured there should be a way to include a search form! I've been playing around with it all day and browsing the forums and i've found similar posts, but nothing exactly like what I need.
Ideally I want the search form to be on the opening tab, with the raw data on a seperate tab, as at times the raw data may need to be directly accessed.
The data has 11 collumns:
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="3061"><colgroup><col width="119"><col width="150"><col width="171"><col width="212"><col width="305"><col width="148"><col width="216"><col width="122"><col width="121"><col width="209"><col width="105"><col width="94"><col width="116"><col width="454"><col width="519"></colgroup><tbody><tr height="31"> <td class="xl24" style="height:23.25pt;width:89pt" height="31" width="119">Sport</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:113pt" width="150">Contact Name</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:128pt" width="171">AG/C4L Database</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:159pt" width="212">Requested Newsletter </td> <td class="xl24" style="width:229pt" width="305">Club Name</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:111pt" width="148">Club Mark</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:162pt" width="216">Address 1</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:92pt" width="122">Address 2</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:91pt" width="121">Address 3</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:157pt" width="209">Town</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:79pt" width="105">County</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:71pt" width="94">Postcode</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:87pt" width="116">Phone</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:341pt" width="454">Email</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:389pt" width="519">Website</td> </tr></tbody></table>
However only 5 of them need to be searchable fields - but all the fields must show in the results if that makes sense?
The 5 searchable fields would be
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="1773"><colgroup><col width="119"><col width="150"><col width="171"><col width="212"><col width="305"><col width="148"><col width="216"><col width="122"><col width="121"><col width="209"></colgroup><tbody><tr height="31"> <td class="xl24" style="height:23.25pt;width:89pt" height="31" width="119">Sport</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:128pt" width="171">AG/C4L Database</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:159pt" width="212">Requested Newsletter </td> <td class="xl24" style="width:111pt" width="148">Club Mark</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:157pt" width="209">Town</td> </tr></tbody></table>
Also sometimes results will need to be filtered for multiple fields - i.e searching for a football club who has requested newsletter.
I read one way that did a similar thing, but only highlighted the relevant data. If possible I would like to completely filter the data based on the search form.
Oh and two last things, my boss is pretty computer illeterate, so the simplier to use the better!
and the database will be stored on a shared drive and accessed from many different computers - i'm not sure if this will affect anything, but I figured it may be worth including.
Any help at all would be massivly apriechated, as right now i'm completely stumped!
P.S my spelling is shocking and i'm running excel 2003
Thankyou for your time if you actually read all that ^^^
First off may I just say that you have a fantastic forum here! I was just browsing through a load of your posts and you all seem really helpful, so I figured i'd ask for some help!
I'm 20 years old, with quite basic computer knowledge; I know my way round a computer and some simple computer programing language, but that's about as far as my knowledge goes!
I just started a new job, and i've been given the mundane task of data entry, but I figured that I may still be able to impress my new boss with some nifty features.
The spreadsheet i'm working on has over 1000 fields, so rather than people who open it having to trawl through every field just to find the relevant information, I figured there should be a way to include a search form! I've been playing around with it all day and browsing the forums and i've found similar posts, but nothing exactly like what I need.
Ideally I want the search form to be on the opening tab, with the raw data on a seperate tab, as at times the raw data may need to be directly accessed.
The data has 11 collumns:
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="3061"><colgroup><col width="119"><col width="150"><col width="171"><col width="212"><col width="305"><col width="148"><col width="216"><col width="122"><col width="121"><col width="209"><col width="105"><col width="94"><col width="116"><col width="454"><col width="519"></colgroup><tbody><tr height="31"> <td class="xl24" style="height:23.25pt;width:89pt" height="31" width="119">Sport</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:113pt" width="150">Contact Name</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:128pt" width="171">AG/C4L Database</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:159pt" width="212">Requested Newsletter </td> <td class="xl24" style="width:229pt" width="305">Club Name</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:111pt" width="148">Club Mark</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:162pt" width="216">Address 1</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:92pt" width="122">Address 2</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:91pt" width="121">Address 3</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:157pt" width="209">Town</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:79pt" width="105">County</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:71pt" width="94">Postcode</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:87pt" width="116">Phone</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:341pt" width="454">Email</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:389pt" width="519">Website</td> </tr></tbody></table>
However only 5 of them need to be searchable fields - but all the fields must show in the results if that makes sense?
The 5 searchable fields would be
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="1773"><colgroup><col width="119"><col width="150"><col width="171"><col width="212"><col width="305"><col width="148"><col width="216"><col width="122"><col width="121"><col width="209"></colgroup><tbody><tr height="31"> <td class="xl24" style="height:23.25pt;width:89pt" height="31" width="119">Sport</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:128pt" width="171">AG/C4L Database</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:159pt" width="212">Requested Newsletter </td> <td class="xl24" style="width:111pt" width="148">Club Mark</td> <td class="xl24" style="width:157pt" width="209">Town</td> </tr></tbody></table>
Also sometimes results will need to be filtered for multiple fields - i.e searching for a football club who has requested newsletter.
I read one way that did a similar thing, but only highlighted the relevant data. If possible I would like to completely filter the data based on the search form.
Oh and two last things, my boss is pretty computer illeterate, so the simplier to use the better!
and the database will be stored on a shared drive and accessed from many different computers - i'm not sure if this will affect anything, but I figured it may be worth including.Any help at all would be massivly apriechated, as right now i'm completely stumped!
P.S my spelling is shocking and i'm running excel 2003
Thankyou for your time if you actually read all that ^^^
