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Microsoft Forms – the easy way to create targeted & professional surveys

The following three hacks show you, in a nutshell, how you can create a survey in Forms, add appropriate media, and export your survey results to Excel.
August 23, 2023
3 min
Arlena Frey

Create your surveys in a targeted, professional way. Microsoft Forms couldn’t be simpler to use. All it takes to create a survey with different question types is a few clicks of your mouse. Perhaps you would like your respondents to express their opinions using free text – or maybe you would like to include a rating scale? In Forms, there are six different types of question to choose from, and you can combine these in any way you like. Add more context to the questions themselves by inserting images or videos.

As soon as you have collected all the responses, you can analyze the results. Forms provides you with an immediate overview of all the responses. What’s more, you can export the responses to Excel and process them there directly.

Microsoft Forms: With these six question types, you have plenty of options.

Six question types

To gather the information you’re looking for or ask for people’s opinions, it’s important to choose the right type of question. With these six question types, you have plenty of options.

Microsoft Forms: Adding an image / other media to a question

Adding an image / other media to a question

It’s well known that a picture is worth more than a thousand words. You can use the Insert media option to add pictures or even videos to a question with complete ease. Using an accompanying photo or explanatory video to provide more context can make a question more meaningful.

Microsoft Forms: Opening results in Excel

Opening results in Excel

Once all the responses have been received, you can use them in different ways. Forms provides you with a direct overview of all the submitted responses in the form of graphics. If you want to analyze the results, it’s worth exporting them to Excel. Simply click Open in Excel to display the results directly in Excel, where you can process them in the usual way.

Are you looking to put the finishing touches to your survey? Do you want it to match your corporate design – or would you perhaps like to give it a more summery look? Find out in our Guide of the Month how you can adapt the design of your survey.

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