Forum Discussion
"Choice" fields are wrapping text/breaking words
(think there's any chance of a resolution??)
- DingkunXieJun 09, 2023
Microsoft
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_camJun 12, 2023Copper Contributor
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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 usesee 'con-stantly', 'thr-ough' etc
- DingkunXieJun 15, 2023
Microsoft
Regarding your issue, the product team is currently rolling out a quick fix and is expected to complete deployment next week. The specific corrective effect as below -
- eenerbotJun 12, 2023Copper Contributor
Hello, and thank you for your reply, DingkunXie
1. Device - Desktop
2. OS - Windows 11/MacOS 13
3. Browsers - Edge/Safari
4. Platform - Web page
5. Form type - Form - multiple choice with five columns. I had to also make the column titles the smallest size because they were also bumping letters to the next line (from only one-word titles).
6. I'm not sure what you mean by which string. But as mentioned in my #5 response, the column headings were affected, and the row text either splits words or misplaces punctuation to the next line (instead of trailing the word). And again, the smallest text size has to be used, and this still happens.- DingkunXieJun 13, 2023
Microsoft
I think this problem should share the same root cause as others mentioned in this thread, but if you can provide a screenshot, it would be very helpful for me to reproduce it, thanks.