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Beverly Hague's avatar
Beverly Hague
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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Damien_Rosario's avatar
Damien_Rosario
Silver Contributor

Hi Beverly

 

Long answers can only do under 4000 characters. It's currently not allowable to go beyond that.

 

My thoughts to combat this are:

 

1. Instruct users to be concise and to note a 4000 character limit.

2. You can try to break the question down into smaller questions (1a, 1b, 1c, etc) which would avoid this problem.

 

Best wishes with your form!

 

Cheers

Damien

BB999's avatar
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. 

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