Forms: Create a Form

With Microsoft Forms, you can create surveys and polls and easily track results as they come in. [in real time].

In your web browser, go to office.com or log in through the NYSERDA Launch page.
Sign in with your Office 365 work credentials.
Under My Forms, click New Form to begin creating your form.
- Tip: Your form is saved automatically while you create

Enter a name for your form. You can also enter an optional subtitle.
Tip: Form names can contain up to 90 characters and a subtitle can contain up to 1,000 characters.

Add a title. In the example the title is “Team Event”. You can add a subtitle if you choose.
Click Add Question to add a new question to the form.
- Select the type of questions by clicking on Choice, Text, Rating, or Date.
- Click More , and select Ranking or Likert (five-point scale).

Want to add more choices?

Click Add Option to add more choices than the two default choices.
Click Add “Other” Option to add a choice option that displays the text Other.
To remove a choice, click the trash can button to the right.
Select Required to make a question required or Multiple Answers to allow for multiple choices.
Click More settings for question , and then select Shuffle options to have Microsoft Forms randomly shuffle the order of the options displayed to users of the form
Tip: Click More settings for question , and then select Subtitle to add a subtitle for a question.
Some choice questions will trigger auto suggestions. For example, the days of the week will be auto-populated if you select “What day of the week should we go”?

Click on the suggested options to add as choices. In the following example below, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are selected.

Click Add Question to add more questions to your form.
- To change the order of the questions, click the Up or Down arrows on the right side of each question.
- Select Long Answer for text responses up to 4,000 characters if you want a larger text box displayed on the form.

Tip: To copy a question, select it and then click the Copy Question button in the upper right corner.
Text questions also allow you to set restrictions when you need to have numbers as the answer.
- Click More settings for question .
- Select Restrictions to restrict the numbers by selecting from the various options such as Greater than, Less than, Between, and many others.

Click Preview at the top of the design window to see how your form will look on a computer. If you want to test your form, enter answers for the questions in preview mode and then click Submit.

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