Using Forms for surveys and polls
Microsoft Forms is a separate app that is part of your M365 toolbox. If JSON formatting is the chef-prepared four-course meal requiring some skill that not everyone possesses, then Microsoft Forms may be the higher-end microwave meal. It still hits the spot but requires minimal effort on our part.
Forms provides a quick and easy way for users who are not especially technical to build data entry forms and view the data that results, both in a raw form and via some automatic data visualizations. We’ve probably all seen and completed a Survey Monkey survey on the web. This is essentially the Microsoft answer to that technology.
Given that surveys in classic SharePoint don’t have a modern equivalent, Microsoft Forms provides a viable alternative. For simple data entry forms, this tool can also be considered a partial replacement for InfoPath. Let’s take a look at creating a new form and the options we have.
