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More Field Types

More types of fields with richer options must be available.
If Forms is meant to compete with market leaders in this sector, it cannot offer just 4 types of fields it currently offers. See attached screen shots of how many types of field other services are offering.

Also, you need richer options. For example: you cannot offer only one type of date formatting. We use dd/mm/yyyy in Europe. Americans use the mm/dd/yyyy. The form creator must be able to define the desired format.

In general, we need more types of fields and more advanced control options for each type of field.

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  • mike commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    need accounting/currency number formatting. I use Forms for sales forecasting and my sales team needs to see $15,400 and not 15400

  • Ryan Hansen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Need name, address, email especially. Those are in a large majority of forms you fill out anyway

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I thought the MS Forms Pro would do this, add more question types, but I see it still has the same sad lack. Even though we have Office365, deficiencies like this keep driving our users to Google Docs Forms.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Include an email field for the user to select multiple emails from the domain or can be manually typed

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This suggestion is 16 months old and still not started!!! We can't use Microsoft Forms without this feature.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Microsoft Forms is very limited, especially when compared to G-Suite. I was startled to see how lightweight the product actually was. No drop-down menu? Really? I prefer to keep our environment as homogeneous as possible, but Microsoft keeps dropping the ball (Microsoft Planner is also inadequate). If Microsoft keeps falling short, my next recommendation will be to move to G-Suite and drop Office 365.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed; more filed types which force/compel formatting and data layout for easier data organizing for reporting.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi, I agree with the thread and would like to add to the example cited that there should also be a time format should we want it.

  • Sergey Romanov commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Cpecial field types like email, telephone or other that can be later processed. SO we can automatically process froms and send SMS to user with results if user entered a phone numnber.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, it's very importante, for example I would like to use an association fields, i.e.

    Rome -> Caesar
    Russia -> Czar
    USA-> President
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