# Uploading form/case exports from Excel

**URL:** <https://forum.dimagi.com/t/uploading-form-case-exports-from-excel/3582>\
**Category:** Users\
**Created:** [June 27, 2017, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/uploading-form-case-exports-from-excel/3582 "2017-06-27T09:53:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eric\_Jospe](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@Eric\_Jospe](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/Eric_Jospe)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2017, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/uploading-form-case-exports-from-excel/3582/1 "2017-06-27T09:53:31Z")

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Hey Dimagi,

Just a small complaint/suggestion: editing form and case exports in  
CommCare HQ is very time consuming. In large surveys, having to drag and  
drop fields takes forever, especially if you make changes to the survey,  
because hidden values and new questions always appear at the bottom. Moving  
questions into different folders causes their file path to change, and  
since CommCare isn't able to recognize it as the same question, it creates  
a new field that also appears at the bottom.

Something that would make this much easier, in my opinion, is a way to  
download exports into Excel, edit them there, and upload them back to  
CommCare. Alternatively, being able to drag multiple fields at once would  
also be very helpful.

Thanks for all the great work you do!

-Eric

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**Author:** ![Eric\_Jospe](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@Eric\_Jospe](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/Eric_Jospe)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/uploading-form-case-exports-from-excel/3582/2 "2017-06-28T07:21:24Z")

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Alternatively, if fields could just appear in the same order in the export  
as they are put in the form itself, that would be even better!

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> On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 11:53:31 AM UTC+2, Eric Jospe wrote: \> \> Hey Dimagi, \> \> Just a small complaint/suggestion: editing form and case exports in \> CommCare HQ is very time consuming. In large surveys, having to drag and \> drop fields takes forever, especially if you make changes to the survey, \> because hidden values and new questions always appear at the bottom. Moving \> questions into different folders causes their file path to change, and \> since CommCare isn't able to recognize it as the same question, it creates \> a new field that also appears at the bottom. \> \> Something that would make this much easier, in my opinion, is a way to \> download exports into Excel, edit them there, and upload them back to \> CommCare. Alternatively, being able to drag multiple fields at once would \> also be very helpful. \> \> Thanks for all the great work you do! \> \> -Eric \>