Microsoft Forms comes with Microsoft 365, so organisations that use Outlook and Teams tend to use it for everything: onboarding checklists, training sign-ups, IT requests, feedback surveys, and class quizzes. Many people fill the same forms repeatedly, and like Google Forms, it does not remember your answers.
Question types you will meet
- Choice questions, as radio buttons, checkboxes, or a dropdown.
- Text questions, short or long.
- Rating questions with stars or numbers.
- Date questions with a date picker.
- Ranking questions, where you order options from most to least important.
- Likert questions, a grid of statements rated on the same scale.
- File upload, available when you are signed in to the organisation's account.
- Net Promoter Score questions on a 0 to 10 scale.
Filling Microsoft Forms with a form filler
Browser autofill rarely recognises Microsoft Forms questions because they are free-text titles rather than standard fields. A form filler that reads question titles can fill them from your profile. Aullevo fills text, choice, dropdown, and date questions, and handles Microsoft Forms ranking questions, which are among the most tedious to do by hand.
- Save the details your organisation's forms ask for in a profile: employee or student ID, department, manager, office location, and so on.
- Open the form, sign in if it requires your work or school account, and press Alt+Shift+L.
- Answer feedback and rating questions yourself, since they should reflect your opinion today.
- Review and submit. If the form offers a receipt, save it.
Tip: If you are the form owner, turn on "Record name" in the form settings for internal forms. People in your organisation then do not need to type their name or email at all.
Good habits
- Check which account you are signed in with. Forms restricted to your organisation record your identity automatically.
- Quizzes in Microsoft Forms are often graded. Do not use AI on graded questions.
- Keep custom fields such as cost centre or project code updated when they change.