{"id":1617715,"date":"2025-10-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/1617715\/microsoft-forms-cheat-sheet-create-online-surveys-quizzes-forms.html"},"modified":"2025-10-30T07:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:02:50","slug":"microsoft-forms-cheat-sheet-create-online-surveys-quizzes-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/1617715\/microsoft-forms-cheat-sheet-create-online-surveys-quizzes-forms.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Forms cheat sheet: How to get started"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft Forms<\/a> is a web app that allows users to create various types of forms that gather information from people online and store that data in the cloud for review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is this useful? Surveys, questionnaires, and other interactive forms are a vital part of doing business. They provide a great way to interact with employees, teammates, customers, and potential business partners. You can use online forms to collect customer feedback or business requirements, conduct market research, gauge employee satisfaction, register attendees for an upcoming event, test learners’ knowledge after a training course, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forms is included with Microsoft 365 subscriptions for individuals and businesses, and a limited version is available for free to anyone with a Microsoft account. In this cheat sheet, we will cover how to use this program to create questionnaires, add specific types of questions, and view and analyze the responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft offers a variety of form templates you can adapt for your own purposes, and we will discuss how to use them — but first we’ll take you through the steps of building a form from scratch so you’ll know how all the parts and pieces work. We’ll also cover how to use Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI assistant, to draft forms for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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