Automated Data Entry in Excel. One way businesses can save time and money is using Excel spreadsheets as data tables in which to store customer information, inventory details or other important data.

Microsoft Excel users, follow these two easy methods to reduce data entry time and errors when customized features aren't available.

Not everyone is familiar with Excel. You can protect the data input process by using Excel's UserForm object to collect data. Susan Harkins explains how.

Type the data. The entry appears in the first selected cell. Press "Ctrl-Enter" on the keyboard. Excel fills the other cells in the column with the same value.

One of Excel’s little known features is its ability to provide dropdown in-cell listboxes for data entry. Consider the situation where you have a worksheet with a column for the employee’s name.