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craecker
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Jun 16, 2022

"Choice" fields are wrapping text/breaking words

I have a form that uses several choice fields in the questions.  Recently the form has started "wrapping" the text or breaking it so it looks extremely odd.  While functionally it works, it's incredi...
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FRS_cam
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Jun 06, 2023
Still a problem in June 2023...
(think there's any chance of a resolution??)
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    eenerbot
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 08, 2023
    Same here...looks fine in the edit but leaves letters and partial words dangling all over the place. Tried everything I could think of to fix it. May have to find an alternative as it looks unprofessional.
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      DingkunXie
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      Jun 09, 2023

      Thank you for your feedback on this frustrating issue. I know that issues like this are something we don't like to see, so could you please share some details whenever you see a short string being wrapped, such as 'Yes' being wrapped in two lines as an option in a Choice question? I would like to bring this information to the product team so that we can prioritize improvements.

       

      I would appreciate it if you could provide the following details:

       

      1. Device - Desktop/Mobile
      2. OS - Windows XX/iOS/MacOS/Android/others
      3. Browsers - Edge/Chrome/Mozilla/Safari/others
      4. Platform - Web page/Assignments in Teams/others
      5. Form type - Form/Quiz/Poll/others
      6. If possible, please share the details of which string is being wrapped that should not be

      • FRS_cam's avatar
        FRS_cam
        Copper Contributor
        Jun 12, 2023

        DingkunXie 

        "

        Thank you for your feedback on this frustrating issue. I know that issues like this are something we don't like to see, so could you please share some details whenever you see a short string being wrapped, such as 'Yes' being wrapped in two lines as an option in a Choice question? I would like to bring this information to the product team so that we can prioritize improvements.

         

        I would appreciate it if you could provide the following details:

         

        1. Device - Desktop/Mobile
        2. OS - Windows XX/iOS/MacOS/Android/others
        3. Browsers - Edge/Chrome/Mozilla/Safari/others
        4. Platform - Web page/Assignments in Teams/others
        5. Form type - Form/Quiz/Poll/others
        5. If possible, please share the details of which string is being wrapped that should not be"

        Reply:

        1. Device - laptop PC (Dell)

        2. OS - Windows 10

        3. Browsers - Google Chrome

        4. Platform - Web version for Forms (supplied through Microsoft 365, access via corporate professional account)

        5. Form type - form

        6. String being wrapped - sorry, I'm not tech enough to understand what you mean by the question, but I've put more notes below.

        As others have described, the problem is with the "Choice" question-type in MS forms. 

        I needed to give relatively long descriptions for level 1 and level 10 (ie a sentence description of  ~15 words).
        When I looked at how the sentence was 'presenting' on the final form, the sentence in each of the box-areas under levels 1 and 10 had 'broken' in random places to allow the text to wrap - ie the words had been split mid-word - so the final result looks utterly unprofessional (note that Google forms does not do this - theirs works correctly)

        The fault/effect is independent of how many levels you choose for the Choice question (e.g. 5 or 10)

        The fault/ 
        effect is independent of the text size you use

         

        see 'con-stantly', 'thr-ough' etc

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