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Copper Contributor

Jun 18, 2023

How do I find my Form again

I created an Office365 Forms form for my company a few days ago and sent it to the respektive individuals via email. The link is functional, and responses can be submitted as well. Now, when I trie...

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Academic_User

Copper Contributor

Jan 31, 2024

I'm curious why "filled forms" or forms don't show up in Sharepoint or OneDrive (like it works so intuitively in Google Drive). Is this a technical limitation or by design?

As a user, I don't have time to search for documents I created on different sites (forms, sharepoint, etc.). The "cloud" should be a "singular" concept when it comes to a provider (Microsoft). Searches should just be easy.

DingkunXie

Microsoft

Feb 01, 2024

You can say it's by design as forms are not stored in OneDrive/SharePoint, and we don't share this information with them. I usually search for my forms through www.office.com. It's quite convenient for me, as I can search for almost any files that I recently worked on in M365 through it.

Academic_User
Copper Contributor
Feb 01, 2024
DingkunXie In my case, it's https://www.microsoft365.com/ (http://www.office.com wants me to log in again, so I don't think it's the right way for my university account). Anway "by design" is a strange thing for me. A good design means it's easy to use. Going to m365 and searching for my "filled forms" (even by their name) won't show anything. The advanced search allows me to tick boxes for Powerpoint, Word, Excel etc. files, but "filled forms" is not one.

I have to go to "forms.office.com" to find them. So, I'd say Forms aren't yet fully integrated into the M365 cloud if you can't find them at the top level. "By design" means to me there's some other reasons (internal to Microsoft?).

Thanks again for helping.
- CDonovan26
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 01, 2024
  Academic_User
  All good - found what I needed.