franksingleton
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The eC1331 is not, to me at least, not friendly on a laptop. Has anyone been able to use it on an iPad?
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BarryT
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If I understand it correcty, if you don’t have excel on your Ipad you need to save the form as a numbers workbook then you can open and use it with the functionality built into it. Still not a user friendly spreadsheet though
Aardee
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Having completed one on a Mac last week I can confirm it's a pain in the stern gland. Whoever decided Excel format is best for a public form needs to have a word with themselves.
BoatBouy
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Tried opening it on a Mac in Numbers. Struggled with it then gave up and downloaded pdf version. Drew text boxes on answers, filled in, and emailed off to the 3 addresses given saying I would print out and sign when I got access to a printer.
Customs came back by email and asked to call Yachtline. On doing that asked for paper copy which I was going to send anyway.
Looking at the French customs forms they are done as editable pdf files which is much more user friendly. For the meantime I will be printing out a load of, and sticking with, the paper versions.
Customs came back by email and asked to call Yachtline. On doing that asked for paper copy which I was going to send anyway.
Looking at the French customs forms they are done as editable pdf files which is much more user friendly. For the meantime I will be printing out a load of, and sticking with, the paper versions.
franksingleton
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Thank you. I am pleased it is not just my incompetence. I have more or less settled on the same procedure as you. I can have master copies with all the standard guff and add details of times snd ports later. Not sure why they should need paper copies, surely not for signatures, e-copies are not signed. I do not carry a printer and, in any case, might not be able to get to a post box before departure. If they cannot produce an online form that I can use, why should I pander to their laziness. They can printout the form.
mattonthesea
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If you think it's difficult on a laptop then try a phone! I missed several fields out by accident. Got a nice phone call from Border Force and a resend request from yacht line. Found we couldn't put today's date in! So I emailed them again explaining and with the correct info as text. Heard nothing back so assume okay. ?
BTW it breaks the first rule of information management: data should be collected only once and kept in one place!
BTW it breaks the first rule of information management: data should be collected only once and kept in one place!
KevinT1
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Tried hard to complete and send from an iPad, gave up and sent from my PC !
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