Dexel Form gives you data entry forms for Microsoft Excel without any programming. Form based data entry, extensive data validation, protection, multi user access and a host of other features make your Excel databases robust and easy to use. It works on both Windows and Mac and it’s free.
Features
data entry
- Form-based creation, editing, deletion and filtering of records
- Searchable drop down lists for lookup of data in related tables
- Date picker for date fields
- Multiline editing of long text fields such as postal addresses
- Customisable help text for the form and for individual fields
multi user access
- Easily share your workbook with colleagues via a network share
- Multiple users can update the shared workbook at the same time
- Dexel Form ensures that data validations are enforced even when multiple users are active
data validation
- Ensure required fields are filled
- Data type validation and formatting (numeric, date, time, interval)
- Uniqueness of values (unique keys), or combinations of values (composite keys)
- Verification of data against related tables (lookups and conditional lookups)
- Foreign key mechanism to ensure the integrity of relationships between tables
- Custom data validations using standard Excel formulae with structured addressing
- Recognises the Data Validations you may have already defined in Excel
auto increment
- Dexel Form can automatically assign a unique sequence number to each record
default values
- Using Excel formulae you can define default values to be inserted into new records
data protection
- Protect tables (either with or without a password) such that the table data can only be updated using Dexel Form, thereby ensuring that data validations are rigidly enforced.
- Optionally limit the actions that a user can perform on data in a table (e.g. do not allow records to be deleted)
- Define columns as “read only” (value cannot be changed by the user)
- Define columns to be “write once” (value is set by the user when the record is created but cannot be changed thereafter)
audit
- Create a complete audit trail of all changes made to the data in a table
data verification
- Highlight errors in data imported from external sources
- Clean data by removing trailing spaces
- Consistent application of formulae
no real limits
- Handles tables with up to 1,000 columns
- Number of rows is limited only by Excel (over 1 million)
programmability
- If you want to use Dexel Form to manage the data entry dialog for hidden sheets, you can write simple macros to do so.
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