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The responses from Forms are no longer automatically syncing to Excel.
I received an email stating, "Please update your form before January 13, 2025 to continue seeing the most recent Forms data in Excel with the new and improved sync. If you don't update, your responses won't continue to sync after this date. To start the update, open your Form from forms.office.com or click the button below. Thanks for using Forms."
After updating, I saw the message in Excel: "The sync with Forms has been updated. This workbook will continue to sync with the latest responses from Forms. The updated sync currently works only in Excel for the web and will soon be available on desktop. Once responses are synced, you will be able to view them on both web and desktop. This update cannot be undone."
However, even after the update, it does not sync unless I open Excel in the browser.
I would like it to sync automatically again without having to open it in a browser like before.
Does "it will soon be available on desktop" mean that eventually, it will sync automatically without having to open Excel?
How long should I wait?
By the way, since the Forms were created from a Teams channel, they are likely group forms.
This is the screen when I updated it.
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Sorry about being thick. Why do you have two flows. Why could the one flow not do both?
We are creating planner task from summited form. Planner getting data and photo from excel spreadsheet. This program only works when excel sheet kept open. Failed programs can be resubmitted after opening excel sheet and synchronizing new data. Any clue to fix this issue?
There are several Chrome extensions that do this kind of work without involving Power Automate. The one I am using is called 'Easy Auto Refresh'.
Still a poor solution compared to the workflow that worked perfectly before January 13th.
Good Idea, how browser extension that automatically refreshes the page every minutes?
Did you create a power automated program to do this? Can you share steps for that?
Nope. Look like that about 2 hours after the last input on the spreadsheet, the sync between Forms and the Excel sheet seems to stop. Paradoxically, the best WA at the moment is to use a browser extension that automatically refreshes the page every n minutes.