Organizing a dinner with friends, a birthday party or a wedding is not an easy task. But technology comes to our aid so that we can better manage the guests , put them in agreement, or at least let everyone know what to do. You can try your luck with a WhatsApp group , but it is doomed to chaos. Instead, tools such as Google Forms or Microsoft Forms will make everything flow naturally thanks to online surveys.
Microsoft Forms is Microsoft's online proposal that you can use for free from your web browser. You just have to log in with the same account that you use in Outlook, Xbox, OneDrive or Office Online and you can start create forms and questionnaires as if there were no one morning.
With this tool, similar to the popular Google Forms, you can create an online document with questions to get feedback from your friends, family, co-workers or clients. Customer comments, employee satisfaction, record events … In short, with Microsoft Forms you can carry out surveys and questionnaires easily thanks to the predefined templates or with blank documents. And, best of all, get the data with the answers.
Templates and whatever you need
With Microsoft Forms , creating a survey from scratch is easy. You can create a blank form or questionnaire or try your luck with the predefined templates, focused on specific topics for personal, professional or educational use . From there, you can make the questionnaire yours by adding or removing questions, defining the type of response …
For example, short answer or long answer ? Do we force you to answer that question or do we allow you to leave it blank? There are also questions to rate with stars , questions to rate something from one to ten or based on certain values … The order of the questions does not matter. At any time it is possible to upload or download questions. And to make it more beautiful, in each question you can include an image or a video . Come on, Microsoft Forms has nothing to envy Google Forms.
As for the chosen topic, whenever you want you can change it for another without altering the content of your form or questionnaire. So you can place a different background image , more cheerful or more sober. That and see how it will look once you send it to its recipients.
And to customize the survey, from the upper right corner you can see the Configuration and activate options such as not being able to fill in the questionnaire until a certain start date, add an end date, order the questions randomly, receive an email message with each response, etc.
Create, send and receive responses
Online surveys and forms have two parts. On the one hand, create the document itself and, on the other hand, collect the information generated by those who answer our questions. In this sense, Microsoft Forms , like Google Forms, is responsible for storing those responses so that you can see them and, thus, make decisions.
When you open the document, as creator, you will see the number of responses, if there is a time for the completion of the questionnaire, you will see specific results and, if you want to process them, you have the opportunity to send them to an Excel In order to create graphs and lists with the data obtained.
But before receiving responses you will need to send the form . By clicking on the button Submit of Microsoft Forms you will see the public link of the survey. You can send it through social networks, email, integrate it into your website, provide a QR code, etc. Come on, you will have no problems getting your questions to clients, friends or family.
If you don't want to depend on Google Forms, Microsoft Forms is the best alternative. Free, easy to use and with all the help you need to start from scratch or create a document that you just have to fill in. In addition, your online surveys will go wherever you want and you will get the answers directly in the document.
