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Anonymous responses on Office forms: is there any way to have their email or name?
Hi Patrícia, if you adjust the Form settings this should be possible to capture name and email address, as shown on the 'Who can fill out this form" section:
"Two additional options are available if you choose to only allow people in your organization to fill out your form. Select Record name if you want each form response to include the name and email address of the responder. Clear this option if you want to allow anonymous responses to your quiz or form."
So this option isn't available if you want to allow anonymous responses. You may have to check these settings, adjust them as needed and send out a new Form but see how you get on.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/adjust-your-form-or-quiz-settings-in-microsoft-forms-f255a4ba-e03c-4e12-b880-f7e8b62e0665
Hi,
I set the quiz option with record name but form only capture the email address not the respondent's name. How can I fix this?
- I have same problem whith enabled record name option. Ms FORMS showed names of some respondents while it showed emails of remaining ones for same form.
Are the options discussed above only in formspro ? I don't see them in forms
Cian Allner Interestinf twist... I have a form that is set to record name but I just expported results and the first 6 or so have names... all since then are anonymous! They shouldnt be as it is set to record. Anyone seen this??
Thank you so much!
Do you if there is any way to know who send the responses after we got them? I have a file full of "anonymous" and needed to understand where they came from :)
Thank you, once again!
Cian Allneranswer above is spot on.
Once you've collected the anonymous results, there's no way to track who submitted what.
If that were possible then someone could trick submitters into thinking the survey is anonymous, and then reverse engineer their ID to use for sinister gain.
If you want to ever cover your bases, might be worthwhile to add a text field for Name and/or Email.
Best wishes and good luck!
Cheers
Damien
Damien_Rosario Hi. Thanks for the confirmation & workaround to add a text field in the form. I thought about that, but then I was wondering, when adding a new text field in a form that has already been circulated, would it invalidate the form or change the link or even reset the num of responses to zero?
What are your thoughts plz
That's a good question but I'm not entirely sure, to be honest, I suspect not though. If the form was capturing anonymous responses, it would be a minefield, compliance-wise if, after the fact, you could reveal names and email addresses but that's just a guess!
You might have to set up a new form with the 'Record name' option enabled and get respondents to fill out the form again, which is a hassle I know but it should work.
