Smart View Vs Web data form entry

Hi
I am currently developing a planning model that is due to be rolled out a number of non finance users.
I find entering data on a web form quite time consuming and not very user friendly. For example when scrolling across left to right the screen doesnt automatically scroll with you.
I have seen that on smart view data can be entered on a form using excel however the worry is here various spreadsheets could be saved all around the place losing the benefit of entering the data in one source.
Has anyone had any experience of rolling out smart view to non finance users?
Thanks

We're just about to roll out an application with and have demonstrated both the Web Forms and Smart View methods of submitting data. Most of the data will be consolidated using various offline spreasheets so the desire for our users is to copy and paste large blocks of data rather than enter them directly onto the Web Forms/Smart View forms. Some of our forms have 100's of rows so for this reason Web Forms aren't really an option given the time it takes to copy and paste a block of data from spreadsheet A to Web Form B. The difference was 1 minute (spreadsheet>Web Form) vs 1 sec (spreadsheet > Smart View Form) for some forms.
As soon as we demoed both methods, this was confirmed, the users started to think of ways they could link their backend spreadsheets to the Smart View forms for ease of submitting data. Early indication is that most users will save a copy of their relative forms on the local machines as a template. They will then use this template to consolidate the data from the external spreadsheets offline. Once they are ready to submit, they intend to copy the whole block from the template into a fresh retrieve of the form for submission.
We haven't looked into offline forms due to the concerns we had with users creating links between the offline form and multiple external spreadsheets. We're just not sure at this point whether it is possible or suitable. It is very unlikely that any values will ever be keyed directly into the form.

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