Google Forms

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New in August 2023

Use default Google Forms theme for your domain

Your Google Workspace administrator can set a default Forms template for your domain, which will appear when you create a new form in Google Forms. You can choose to use this template or continue with a blank theme.

Find out more in our how-to video:

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New in July 2023

New ways to collect email addresses in Google Forms

When collecting email addresses from form responders, you now have the choice of automatic collection, responder input or no collection. 

Find out more in our how-to video:

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New in July 2022

Add more formatting to text in Google Forms

You can now add more formatting to your text in a Google Form, including rich text formatting in your descriptions, and individual formatting for main and sub headings in the form. 

Find out more in our how-to video:

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New in March 2022

Embed linked form charts into Docs and Slides

You can now embed linked response charts from Google Forms into a Google Doc or Google Slides presentation. If a new form response is received, you will be able to update the chart to show the latest response. 

Find out more in our how-to video:

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New in October 2021

Change all form settings in one place 

You can now access all form settings via a tab that’s easy to navigate. 

Find out more in our how-to video:

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New in August 2021

Saving your progress in a Google Form

If you are signed into your Google account when responding to a Google Form, your progress will automatically be saved as a draft for 30 days from your last edit, or until your submission is complete.

This highly requested feature helps ensure you won’t have to start over if:

Your draft responses will automatically be saved when logged in to your Google account. To view your draft responses, simply reopen the form link when logged in to the same Google account. 

New in August 2019

Use the forms notifications add-on to be notified when your form receives a specific amount of responses, or to send a follow-up email automatically to responders.

Watch our how-to video to find out more:

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New in July 2019

You can now import questions from existing Google Forms into a new form. You can choose the form to import questions from, and choose to import all or selected questions. 

Watch our how-to video to find out more about setting the theme of a form:

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New in June 2018

Google Forms has a great update this month around themes. Previously, you could add your own image to a form, after which the colours of the form would be set automatically. Now, you can add your own image and decide which colours to use for the form and its background, as well as being able to set the font of the form.

Watch our how-to video to find out more about setting the theme of a form:

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New in July 2017

There were some improvements to Google Forms this month: