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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?
I have a similar issue, my form does sync, but not all of the information from the form appears in the file. Some information simply does not appear, even when entered in the form. How can I fix this?
were you able to fix this? When I open my excel file on browser it says "10% synced" and is not continuing to sync. I have all my results in forms that I use on a daily basis but I need the shared excel too. All the new entries since the update do not show in the excel file. This is terrible. Can anyone tell me how to get all the results synced?
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?
Microsoft must fix this bug and correct ASAP.
I 100% agree that this was a really poorly thought out "upgrade" and essentially made worthless hours of work I put in to allow our users and external patients to fill out forms that once automatically created beautiful power BI reports and now have to be manually opened on a routine basis to have up to date information. Microsoft needs to take these concerns seriously and come up with a fix rather than tell users we just need to put in a suggestion to "add functionality". YOU had the functionality there. Your *upgrade* broke the functionality that was working well. MICROSOFT needs to address this as a bug and correct it ASAP.
Thank you.