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Sections within Microsoft FORMS
I see that this questions has been posed in multiple places, multiple times. We currently have a product that we use for Surveys, not SurveyMonkey or anything like that. It literally integrates with our CRM.
Our license will be expiring 5/31 with this company and I've been tasked with researching new survey options. Because we now have the full blown version of O365, I'm trying to get user adoption so we can finally work within one system....AND....move towards 21st century thinking.
My problem with MSForms is two fold. There are others - but the main problems are:
a. You cannot create 'sections' as you can with other products.
b. You cannot create a numbering system, so for example - instead of just 1, 2, 3 for each question - I 'may' want 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, etc..... OR the ability to not show numbers at all.
Okay - one more - we need to have the ability to direct our thank you for taking the survey to a specific site.
These options would appear, in my mind, to be relatively easy options to incorporate into the program. I see that these questions have been posed since 2016. We're almost in the middle of 2018. Shouldn't these have been addressed by now?
Please consider putting some of these requests further towards the top of the list. Yes - I have read and posted to the User Voice section, but nothing seems to be going on there with those requests.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Agreed, this would be a great development for something I am currently working on.
As a maths teacher the ability to write question 1a 1b etc is very important so I'm hoping that this feature is provided in the very near future. eg Q1 A square has side length 3cm. a) find the perimeter b) find the area c) find the length of the diagonal to 2 dp. Many thanks. Pamela Sinclair
Yong QiuMicrosoft
Thanks for reaching out to us and we are already working on this.- Yong Qiu
TiffHam For section feature, we plan to roll out to 100% by the end of March.
Zhongzhong_Li Got a lot of feedback on sections that may be helpful.
This is great news! When do you anticipate having the feature available to add sections in Forms? Thanks!
...and crickets.
I totally agree. We have accounts with two survey tools and would dearly love to move onto Forms to save money and get things in one place. Along with the above mentioned improvements more question types would be great and having some sort of road-map would make planning for the future a bit easier.
So Microsoft, please help us help you and make things a bit more transparent for us. What is your vision for Forms. Is it meant to be competition for the Monkey and the Gizmo, or will it stay just a small, lightweight tool good for short and very simple surveys forever?
Thanks!
I agree Sections for Microsoft Forms would be great - although you could use Branching to get "fake" section breaks - but that's not ideal.
Finally if we were able to add a Text Block to Forms that would be awesome - The Text block would let you just add explanatory text in the middle of the survey.
Just "Add Form Element" Would bring up a chooser:
- Add question
- Add image
- Add text block
Unfortunately, that would create a numbered question. It's not the same.
If you wanted 5 questions in section one, you'd want them numbered 1-5.
If you then have 8 questions in section two, you'd want them numbered 1-8.
And above each section a blurb or heading of some sort.
Not only that, we also asked them to have question 'groups'.
Such as 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c, etc.
AND.... even better - an option to NOT have any numbers at all.
Kathy Siskoy This is a great idea, and I hope you get resolution soon! I really need to branch by section for a form I'm working on. Would be so much easier than branching by each individual question.
- It would be great to have separate numbering system under sections.
Question: is there a feature that would be similar to likert that ranks importance of 4 items, that does not allow to have each line item have the same ranking response (more than one item be "most important".) It would rank from one to 4, one being most important. I responded to a test survey and unfortunately I could select all of them with same response, when I want each line item to have a different response based on in ranking importance (no duplications).
Gee, it's already 2 years and still no further update from microsoft development teams. This is great, My office also asking me about this function. Kindly update the function based on user request.
- Am I correct that we are now 3 years later and there is still no way to edit/remove numbering? Am I missing something? Yong Qiu ?
are this still not available ??
ie
number 1a etc
restart numbering for each section
add text fields for explanatory text
