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"Every day there are little things in software that we find annoying. Some write books about it, like Annoyances.org, but I thought this site would be more constructive.
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When filling in a form the user icon (aka Account Name) on the top right is missing.
It would be awesome if the Forms questionnaire showed who was signed in. They could copy the Forms responses which is really clear. So it would be awesome if they had the same green bar below:
✅ Figure: Good example – In the green bar I can see who is signed in being “PW”❌ Figure: Bad example – How the forms currently look – there is no indication who is signed in
When looking at the feedback from my forms surveys, I prefer Bar Charts over Pies. Does anyone like Pies? – I find them less readable.
Suggestion: I would like to go to Tools | Options and set my preference
Question: I think I have noticed that Forms show Bars when there are 6 or more options. Right? If so, I guess I should always make sure I have 6 options 😊 😊
Figure: Pie chart
VS
Figure: Bar chart
That is an odd decision. I was just talking to a person form New Zealand who said:
“we actually have a rule to never use a pie chart :) The only time they’re somewhat useful is if you are comparing 2 things. Anything more and it’s not really readable”
Please fix it or give us an option to allow us to fix it.
I have had employees leave SSW and we have had little dramas later… this is when I discover that we have lost their forms. Has this happened to any of you?
Losing Microsoft Forms when employees leave your company can be avoided by making sure they share it to a team and not to one user.
Suggestion:
I would like a warning in the form that says this form is an orphan and is not shared to a team.
OR
…even better, have an admin portal that allows you to assign the missing form to a new owner.
Figure: This form was shared to a bunch of people but when the creator left, it was lost
To repro:
Figure: Open form (you can see it)Figure: But you only get “Sorry, something went wrong This form doesn’t exist”
One of the things I’ve learnt using Microsoft Forms is that employees want to get feedback on their feedback, otherwise they feel that their time went into a blackhole.
Therefore, after all the responses come in, I review the comments and I find I want to bold and highlight remarkable feedback.
Workaround – You cannot do this now, so we must copy the responses into a Word document and annotate it there. Then I record a video and send it to the staff, an example (of a public one) is below.
Suggestion:
Please allow Microsoft Forms responses to be annotated
Please allow an emoji to be given to a response
Please give us an extra “Notes” column after the “Responses” column
Please have the whole form have a “Notes” field too, so I can place comments there E.g. the URL of the feedback video
Figure: When viewing Microsoft Forms responses, it should be possible to annotate themFigure: See this video where we must copy all the responses into word to be able to annotate them