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New experience for Forms cover pages and distribution

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Dec 19, 2022

When you design a customer satisfaction survey, registration form and others, getting a high response rate is important. Why not add an appealing cover page to catch their attention! With our new cover page feature, you can easily create an attractive cover that will adjust to fit all distribution channels and screen sizes.

 

 

Give your survey a facelift and engage your audience through thousands of cover page themes, (AI powered) animated templates and music!

 

To make designing a form easier and faster, Forms will suggest a set of cover page templates based on your theme, such as a holiday party invitation, post-event feedback or voting survey. You can also upload your own image from your device or Bing.com.

You’ll really get their attention by adding music! Forms offers a variety of sound bites to amplify your message and theme.

 

 

 

Distribute to multiple channels with adaptive view for more responses

 

To provide an easy and quick way for designers to make an attractive invitations available through different platforms ,  we’ve updated the distribution capability of Forms. Users now have advanced distribution options when sending forms/surveys to multiple channels including Outlook, Teams, QR code, and consumer accounts on  Facebook and Twitter to get more responses.

 

 

  • New experience in email

When you send your form/survey through Outlook, the added cover page will be displayed in the email, as shown below.

 

 

  • New QR code experience

If you want to send your form offline, you can generate a downloadable fancy QR code to capture more responses.

 

 

 

FAQ

  1. Can I send the form to external recipients?

YES. With the new distribution feature, you can now send your anyone form to both internal and external email addresses at the same time.

 

  1. How can I easily set up a form for only specific people in my organization?

When you enter the recipient’s name into the people picker on the right (1), their name will be automatically synced to the people list on the left (2) after the form is sent. You will no longer need to enter people’s name twice.

Updated Dec 19, 2022
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