Jul 09 2020
08:59 AM
- last edited on
Aug 03 2023
10:36 PM
by
TechCommunityAP
Jul 09 2020
08:59 AM
- last edited on
Aug 03 2023
10:36 PM
by
TechCommunityAP
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
Jul 09 2020 09:06 AM
@MissOC unfortunately the answer is a resounding "no"
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User
Oct 12 2020 02:30 PM
@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!
Oct 13 2020 12:17 AM
Oct 13 2020 08:35 AM
@Rob Elliott Yes yes, that is true and sad. It would be a great conversion.
Feb 26 2021 06:40 AM
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.
Feb 26 2021 08:03 AM
Feb 26 2021 08:15 AM
@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.
Aug 26 2021 10:09 AM
@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.
Jan 15 2023 07:17 PM
Jun 26 2023 08:09 AM - edited Jun 26 2023 08:09 AM
@AmilaDGamage That would be great, but my version of Forms does not have that Import button that is shown in the video.
Jun 26 2023 11:10 AM
Jun 26 2023 05:17 PM
Feb 28 2024 09:24 AM
@MissOC
Good news your magic way has arrived
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-forms-blog/migrate-your-google-forms-to-microsoft-f...