Using Contributor with Excel

An e.List item can be opened in Excel to combine the use of Excel's familiar formatting features with much of the functionality of Contributor. The Contributor add-in for Excel must be installed to be able to do this.

On the workflow page for an application, click on the Excel icon Using Contributor with Excel This will open the e.List item in excel. Each tab will be opened in a separate Excel worksheet. The Contributor add-in for Excel allows you to perform, in Excel, many of the functions that you can carry out via the Web interface. The following are all of the Contributor operations that can be performed in Excel:

  1. View, edit, save, submit, ...

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