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Forms responses missing when Excel is opened
Dear Forms customers,
Forms for Excel contains a live data connection to your form. Any new response data will be stored in your form, and also be reflected in your workbook. On occasion, the workbook may not contain the latest data for a number of reasons.
If this is the case, Forms provides a new feature, "Sync all responses to a new workbook", in order to “sync” your most recent responses to a new workbook. This new workbook will be stored next to your original workbook on OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online. This will ensure your data is up to date. Learn more about how to get missing data.
Regards,
Zhongzhong
I am experiencing the same Issue, it seems like a specific Form is linked to a specific Excel sheet and if you change anything manually in the Excel sheet it might break the possibility for the Form application to save any data in the Excel sheet.
I expected it to create a new Excel sheet if it cant save or find the original Excel sheet. But that's not the case but should solve the issue for most of us.
- Zhongzhong_Li
Microsoft
Hi Emanuel Foglander, Maria Kilgore, Nate Kennedy, Timothy Denton, Erik Michael and Evan Raiewski,
Thanks for reaching out and sorry for the error for your Forms and Excel workbook.
Do you mind to send me a private mail with your form URL, so I could ask our engineers to follow up?
Regards,
Zhongzhong
If you click the export to excel button the link will flash and be redirected. But if you copy and past it then change the false at the end to a true it will open a new spreadsheet that will have all your data in it. This is the only work around I have found. But you will have all your data this way.
Example
data. https://forms.office.com/Pages/RedirectToExcelPage.aspx?id=RgHwM8xv6Um1aHiWswadRM6biPXhOnlKtde69MV1dHQUFYT1g5VzFUMjBPR0QxOUdQTi4u&forceReExport=false - change this false to a true
I hope this helps some of you!
Nate Kennedy wrote:If you click the export to excel button the link will flash and be redirected. But if you copy and past it then change the false at the end to a true it will open a new spreadsheet that will have all your data in it. This is the only work around I have found. But you will have all your data this way.
Example
data. https://forms.office.com/Pages/RedirectToExcelPage.aspx?id=RgHwM8xv6Um1aHiWswadRM6biPXhOnlKtde69MV1dHQUFYT1g5VzFUMjBPR0QxOUdQTi4u&forceReExport=false - change this false to a true
I hope this helps some of you!
You're a genious ! Thanks a lot !
That completely fixed my Excel sheet, creating a new one which workd perfectly.
Note for others : the "export" button is on the form's response's tab. Be quick to copy the URL...
