Collecting a signature in Excel

[paulandrews]

Hi All,

I need to figure out a way to get a signature from a touch screen panel into an excel spreadsheet, can anyone help me out?

Many thanks,
Paul

 

[Ralajer]

Paul,

The simplest way would be to open paint or another graphics program, capture the signature, save the file then import it into Excel as an image.

 

[paulandrews]

Thanks Ralajer - however would there not be some sort of active object I could use? Perhaps even an MS paint object I could have in the spreadsheet? Many thanks

 

[Ralajer]

Try the Bitmap Image object. After inserting it double clicking on it will open paint and allow editing and automatically update the changes to the object in Excel.

 

[Rotate04]

TopazSystems.com and ePadLink.com are both companies that sell software that incldues add-ins for Office and PDF documents that allows using a Windows computer with touchscreen and stylus to enter physical signatures electronically.
This is a YouTube video of someone demonstrating the Topaz add-in.
Excel Signature Capture.avi - YouTube

I have not found a free product or plugin to do it.

 

[shg]

How about the alternative of Excel's built-in capabilities: Insert > Signature line. Then get hooked up with VeriSign or other ID provider.