Forum Discussion
Unreliable Saving in Microsoft Forms and Limitations on number of questions
I’m repeatedly facing issues with Microsoft Forms where it fails to save my work on both the web and application versions, leading to significant loss of effort. To make matters worse, after painstakingly creating 160 questions, I was blocked with a message stating, "This form has the maximum number of questions," contradicting the stated 200-question limit on the website. It is unacceptable that such critical limits are not communicated clearly and upfront, causing unnecessary hassle and wasted time.
Can anyone explain why these discrepancies exist and how to avoid such setbacks? I'm very disappointed and need a reliable solution.
- DingkunXie
Microsoft
Does your form include Likert questions? Each statement in a Likert question counts as a separate question, so if you have Likert questions, the total number of questions in your form will likely be lower than 200.- DingkunXieTo clarify the issue you were concerned about with saving, the changes you made were actually automatically saved in the system. Only the new question that exceeded the limitation was not saved. So, you didn't actually lose any of the work you did.
- I understand that I didn't consider the Likert questions in counting the number of questions. But the saving issue did not have anything to do with that. I had this saving problem more than one time, even in the beginning, where I was far from the limitation.
Still I think MS Forms is frustrating both for the number of questions limitation and the saving issue. I wish MS Forms didn't have that limitation, just the same as Google Forms.
Thank you. That's right. Yes it includes likert questions.
