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Copper Contributor

Aug 27, 2018

Limit on Long Answer?

Users have been reporting issues with 2 of the long answer questions on our Form. There are 5 other long answer questions and they seem to be fine. What is strange is some users have been able to suc...

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BB999

Copper Contributor

Jun 08, 2019

Damien_Rosario

Good morning. If Microsoft cannot fix Forms at least they should be able to show the NUMBER OF CHARACTERS AVAILABLE and the NUMBER OF CHARACTERS USED as a respondent types in a reply. The way the other survey tools do.

Damien_Rosario

Silver Contributor

Jun 12, 2019

Hi BB999

I agree with you and I see there's some limited advocacy on UserVoice to advocate for this request.

https://microsoftforms.uservoice.com/forums/386451-welcome-to-microsoft-forms-suggestion-box?query=character%20count

If we can get traction to support the link below, it would make a great addition to Forms (I've voted to support this).

https://microsoftforms.uservoice.com/forums/386451-welcome-to-microsoft-forms-suggestion-box/suggestions/17720578-include-a-word-character-count-restriction-in-the

Cheers

Damien