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Overview

By smart forms we mean ready-made worksheets that need only to be filled out, ready-to-use templates and spreadsheet solutions, that is, to use Excel's nomenclature .

Templates can be constructed quite easily; they represent simply a layout framework for structuring sequences of operations, application forms, reports , and so on. The templates can be made " intelligent " by a construction that allows them to carry out more or less complex calculations on the input using formulas embedded in the form, or to simplify the printing or saving process with the help of various macros.

Forms of this sort ”such as for creating invoices or carrying out frequently occurring calculations ”represent an enormous saving of labor in everyday existence. They make it possible even for Excel novices to use complex calculational models and to print out their results in an attractive and standardized form.