# Help me fill in these blanks as effectively as possible. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 24, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fill-in-these-blanks-as-effectively-as-possible/713525 "2015-02-24T16:14:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fill-in-these-blanks-as-effectively-as-possible/713525/1 "2015-02-24T16:14:05Z")
I have an excel spreadsheet. Top row contains column headings. Each other row contains a person’s name, followed by cells containing various pieces of information about that person. I would like to be able to write notes about each of these people, which are saved, so that I can use these notes to remember what I am doing with each of these people. A Microsoft Excel cell doesn’t seem weildy for this as the notes are to be too detailed. Therefore I (export/smoothly-copy-info-from) this excel file to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_, which provides me a nice big entry box for each person so that I can record said notes. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fill-in-these-blanks-as-effectively-as-possible/713525/2 "2015-02-24T16:20:02Z")
Populate the first two rows, drag-select those cells, copy & paste into Word, then mess with the page size/layout so the columns aren’t too skinny. Word should have better editing abilities like bullets & lists. Reverse the copy/paste process and put it all back into a spreadsheet if Word isn’t willing to print it out in a workable fashion; Excel might be better at that. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fill-in-these-blanks-as-effectively-as-possible/713525/3 "2015-02-24T18:58:22Z")
You can change the size and formatting of cells in excel to your liking. ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fill-in-these-blanks-as-effectively-as-possible/713525/4 "2015-02-24T22:57:36Z")
Maybe write up your notes in Word or OneNote and put a hyperlink in the ‘Notes’ cell in the spreadsheet.