How to create a form?

You should probably post this to a new question.

Jason

txturbo wrote:
I must be missing something. I can not figure out how to make a form.

What's the trick?
txturbo wrote:
I must be missing something. I can not figure out how to make a form.

What's the trick?

Hello,

Honestly I was having the same problem trying to figure out how to make a form from my own data instead of making one from an existing template. I even called apple and they sent me to someone who worked on the Iwork suite. Even that guy had no idea what I was talking about- his answer was "well, you have to make formulas to reference your own cells- you've used excel haven't you?" I was like, "if this a touted feature to make data entry easier, it shouldn't take me entering a ton of formulas. It's not very Intuitive and the online help section only shows 1 irrelevant answer when searching for "forms"- the built in tutorial explains nothing either.

Anyways, through messing around I found out this:
You can start with a blank worksheet.

Create a table-using the format or table pop up menu.

You must make sure the top row of your data is actually in the top row (grayed or highlighted) portion of the table/spreadsheet. Look closely, this took a while for me to notice, I actually had to highlight the row with my data headers and move it into the uppermost gray header area, as well as the columns over 1 column to the gray area.

The reason why I wasn't getting the option of "new form" when I clicked a tab was because my data was not arranged in the topmost and leftmost areas (default grey areas) to show the headers for tables.

Now, if your data is arranged correctly, holding down on the "+" tab should let you get a pop up of "new form" as well as "new spreadsheet".

If done correctly, you will now see the familiar form screen. You jut have to select which table you want it to reference, and it will now create "pages" in your form based on the number of rows your table has.

Hopefully this helps. Better yet, hope Apple updates their tutorial and help to make creating forms easier to understand. Good luck!

import an Excel sheet into numbers
select the sheet
tap the information icon (i in filled round in top right bar)
tap headers
make sure that Header Rows is set to 1
make sure that Header columns is set to 1
close this settings menu
pres the '+' tab and you will now get New Sheet and New Form option