How to Create a Form for the Web in Excel

Series Summary

Computers are complex machines built upon very simple principles. They perform arithmetical operations millions of times over to transform digital information moving at lightning speed into usable human data. A personal computer's job is to help a user create, manipulate, deliver, receive or delete media content. Nevertheless, these fundamental functions mimic human ability in some surprising ways. Therefore, the computer is increasingly becoming an engine of the imagination, a platform for the digital life. In this free video series, learn about computers, software and accessories from an IT professional. Learn to use Microsoft Excel to create a form for the Web, discover what to do with old printer cartridges, how to find replacement laptop keys and how to fix sticking laptop keys. Find cheap printer cartridge ink, install cursors and copy bin files to a DVD. Also get tips on finding printer cartridges for a Canon printer and learn some practical uses for Excel.

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Eric White and today we're going to talk about how to create a web form in Excel. So first things first, go ahead and open Excel up, click on the office button and then click on new. Once you're at new, you can look through your templates and down about halfway is forms. Click on forms and you can choose business, health care, sports. We'll go ahead and choose business and we'll do, here we go, scope change request. So we're going to go ahead and download it because I don't have that form yet. Office will automatically download it so long as you're connected to the internet. And here's my form. You can fill it out however you see fit, you can change it, you can edit it to meet your needs. When the time comes, you can go to the office button, go to save as, and then select HTML web page right there, and then hit save. Now it wants to know that I'm okay with this format, so I'm going to go, "yes, it's fine". And I just created a form and it's HTML, we can upload it to our web space. That's all there is to it."