The responses from Forms are no longer automatically syncing to Excel.

Anonymous
2025-01-08T05:29:30+00:00

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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Anonymous
2025-01-26T19:26:40+00:00

Sorry about being thick. Why do you have two flows. Why could the one flow not do both?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-09T21:33:08+00:00

    Hi Sophia,

    I share the same concern as the user who posted this topic, but, your answer doesnt fully cover the question, because, the sync we are talking about is not an improvement from what we have, but a decrease in performance, because the previous forms online was able to sync automatically at least to the online excel file. (which makes sense).

    So, what we have now, after Microsfot forms changes is a diminished utility of the application. if doesnt sync automatically is practically useless, its the same as downloading a copy.

    Thats why I would like to undertand the ETA to recover the utility of the app,not to get some new feature.

    Regards, Andrea

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-13T04:46:28+00:00

    Can this be raised as an Issue rather than Feedback as it has broken a number of our Power Automat flows that have "Update Row' actions. Due to the automatic sync not working any flow we have with an 'Update Row" action is failing to locate the row as the data in the workbook is stale. This needs to be resolved as a fix and not suggested as a potential upgrade or improvement.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-12T20:47:22+00:00

    I agree with all parties experiencing this issue. I have 500 forms requiring sync every other day. Doesn't feel like an upgrade?

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-10T06:18:53+00:00

    Hi Sophia,

    I am also facing the same issue. By this new sync update, the Microsoft Forms have become useless for me.

    Hope the concern is addressed ASAP.

    Regards

    Mittarpal

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