1-Day Design and Build Digital Word Fill-in Form and Auto Export Collected Data to Excel Course

Course Overview

This course is created, owned and trained by Mr. Alaster Leong. Learn from the original creator of this course.

*Note: Click here to find out if VBA is allowed on your laptop before registering.

People dislike rigid forms layouts, for example, web forms that come in sequential layouts without flexibility. Digital Word fillable forms, on the other hand, provide layout flexibility that can be designed and built to suit the needs of the user and are also printable.

There are a wide variety of uses for digital Word fill-in forms across several industries and sectors. The following are some examples of how digital word fill-in forms can be used:

Surveys and Questionnaires
Registration and Application Forms
Data Collection and Reporting
Order Forms and Invoices
Feedback and Comment Forms
Customer Support and Contact Forms
Travel and Booking Forms
Health and Medical Forms
Feedback and Evaluation Forms
Claims and Reimbursement Forms etc.

Many people often struggle with common questions below –

How to gather information efficiently
How to transfer digital forms into a tabular format without manual data entry
How to gather digital information?
How to create digital fill-in form?
How to batch transfer all digital forms into tabular format like Excel automatically?
How to gather information more efficiently and many more.

While creating a form is easy, building and designing a digital Word fill-in form can be challenging and time consuming when transferring the digital form into a tabular format is done manually. For instance, imagine dealing with 50 forms, each containing 20 items. If you were to manually copy and paste the data, it might take you around 5 minutes or more for a single form. If you have 50 forms containing 1000 items to copy or paste, that will take you approximately 4 hours and 16 minutes of continuous manual work – that means half your working day is wasted!

Apart from learning how to build digital Word fill-in form, discover how to auto-export collected form data to Excel so you can dramatically improve your work efficiency and learn how you can complete 50 forms with 1000 items in less than 30 seconds, freeing up your time for other important and more valuable tasks.

Course Information

Fee

SGD 420.00 (Nett)

Absentees will be charged the full course fee

Includes lunch and two coffee breaks with light snacks, unless otherwise stated

Time

9:00am to 5:00pm (7 hours)

Mode

Classroom @ Hotel

Dates

2 Apr 2025
1 Aug 2025
10 Dec 2025

Important Note

Closed Class

Important Note

Closed Class

Why Learn With Us?

Objectives

Create digital fill-in form in MS Word
Fill MS Word form
Automate the importing of MS Word forms in batch into MS Excel using VBA
Make your work more efficient and save tons of time without entering the collected data manually

Who Should Attend

This course is recommended for anyone who required to collect data, e.g. sales and marketing, business development, human resource, marcom, finance, market surveyors, educator and more…

Methodology

This is a hands-on practical course. Trainer will walk through the topic step-by-step. Learners will be provided with exercise files on every topic to effectively apply what have been taught. A short Q & A session will be available after each topic.

Prerequisites

Must possess basic working knowledge on MS Word and MS Excel.
Prior programming and VBA knowledge is not required.
Ensure VBA can be run on your laptop – click here for the guide to check VBA.

Things To Bring

A Windows operating system laptop with Microsoft Excel and Word version 2010 or higher or Office 365 installed and VBA enabled. Click here to check if VBA can be run on your laptop (personal laptop is preferred as some company laptops may have security restrictions)
Laptop power adaptor and a USB mouse.

Course Outline

1. Microsoft Word

Developer tab
Introduction to Content
Controls
Which Content Controls should be avoided
Building the structure of the form using Table
Inserting the Content Controls into the form structure
Setting the properties of the Content Controls
Save the document as the master copy
Protecting the document so that only form filling is allows
Save the document as another name for distribution

2. Microsoft Excel

Create a workbook for collecting the data from the Word document form
Create the VBA Sub procedure for importing form data from Word document in the Personal Macro Workbook
Place the macro in Excel QAT

3. Test the Import

Duplicate a few copies of the Word document that contains the form
Save all duplicated copies in the same path as the Excel workbook
Open all duplicated copies and fill the form
Open the workbook and start the importing

Our Dedicated Lead IT Trainer - Mr. Alaster Leong

This course is created, owned and trained by Mr. Alaster Leong. Learn from the original creator of this course.

Alaster has been training adult learners in IT in both the private and public sectors since 1986. Alaster’s career before training centred around IT for over 12 years, as he held various roles within software development. He has earned himself a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification and he is an existing Trainer approved by People’s Association (PA). He was also a former Associate Trainer with the Civil Service College.

He specialises on training Microsoft Applications and Adobe Photoshop. Based on his vast experience and keeping abreast with the emerging trends, tools and technologies with the IT industry, especially software, he has extensively involved in developing several course outlines and course materials and conducting training to equip learners with skills in-demand or likely to be most important in the jobs of the future work.

Alaster constantly explore innovative and effective ways in imparting knowledge and engaging his learners at the same time. He also focuses his training on providing practical solutions to real-life problems, especially Excel. He is more than willing to help overcome various problems faced by his learners that arise in their workplace in applying their newly-acquired knowledge and skills any time after the course. He is well-known for his dedication, commitment and passion to training that makes him well-liked and appreciated by his learners.