Importing Google Form into Microsoft Form

[MissOC]

Hello, 

We are a Google school recently changed to Microsoft. Is there a magic way of importing all of our existing Google Forms into Microsoft Forms?

Thanks, 

Shannon

[#2]

@MissOC unfortunately the answer is a resounding "no"

Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User

[#3]

@MissOC  of course you can! Open documents in google, then select File and download. If it is a Google Slide, you will select PowerPoint to convert it to, if it is Google Sheet, you will select Word to convert it to.  Once you download them, upload them into your Onedrive!  Tada!

BTW, It's not magic. It takes some time, but is workable!

[#4]

...but that doesn't convert them into a Microsoft Forms form!

Rob
Los Gallardos

[#5]

@Rob Elliott Yes yes, that is true and sad. It would be a great conversion.

[#6]

@Adam_Davis 

What would be AWESOME is if forms platforms/apps could reverse engineer a spreadsheet into a form using the column headings and field formatting.  I know this cant' be hard.... I'm surprised no one has done it.  

[#7]

¿How do you know it can't be hard? I've never seen anywhere where the coding behind Microsoft Forms is published.

[#8]

@RobElliott I'm not saying the general public should do this and of course Microsoft and Google are not going to share their coding. The ability to take data you have already collected in a spreadsheet (where fields have formatting and column headings) and reverse engineer a form (at least simple forms) from it should be relatively easy if you know programming.  With folks migrating into and out of either platform, you would think someone at those companies might have already done it to make the migration more attractive.

[#9]

@SBesecker  I would actually equate it to basically the reverse of importing a phone book into an Android phone or even back into Outlook.  If they can take a an upload of an Excel file to create contacts in a piece of software, creating a form using an Excel Spreadsheet would seemingly be very similar.  Even if it just created the basic question that you could then go back and edit to enable the various option, branching, etc.

[#10]

@MissOC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWeWJyiOffk

[#11]

@AmilaDGamage That would be great, but my version of Forms does not have that Import button that is shown in the video. 

[#12]

Click the All My Forms link, the Quick Import link is on the screen that appears.

[#13]

You can access Microsoft Forms portal at https://forms.office.com/Pages/DesignPageV2.aspx, and you will find "Quick import" button.

[#14]

@MissOC 

Good news your magic way has arrived

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-forms-blog/migrate-your-google-forms-to-microsoft-f...