Friday, November 9, 2012

Excel surveys now available

Excel surveys now available:
Today we are launching Excel surveys on SkyDrive. Excel surveys are a great way to collect info from your friends and family to better organize and plan activities. Now, whether you need to plan a carpool, organize a potluck dinner, or get your kickball team together, you can do it right from SkyDrive with an Excel survey.
Excel surveys will be rolling out over the next 24 hours, so if you don’t see them in your SkyDrive yet, you will soon.
Creating a survey is really easy. Click the Create button in SkyDrive, and then choose Excel survey.
Dropdown menu: Folder, Word document, Excel workbook, PowerPoint presentation, OneNote notebook, Excel survey
You can then enter in the name of your survey and add questions.
New Microsoft Excel survey / Name the workbook where the results will be collected / Create button
A form containing fields for question, subtitle, response type, required, format, decimal places, default answer
Once you're finished entering your questions, you can share the survey or save it and preview how it will look.
When you go back to your SkyDrive, you'll see your surveys alongside the rest of your files.
Holiday potluck survey shown as document type survey
Once you’ve created a survey, you can do all of the things that you've come to expect from SkyDrive, like sharing, viewing, and editing.
Survey menu: share survey, view survey, edit survey
Then when you share the survey, you can shorten the URL and send it to anyone that you want to collect info from.
Sharing dialog says anyone with this link will be able to submit answers without signing in. They will not be able to see the results.
When the recipient clicks the survey link, they'll be able to complete the survey. Here’s how that looks:
Recipient view of survey with questions, text fields, and submit button
As the creator of the survey, you can view all of the results in Excel and do neat things like embed the results in a webpage, or create and share a chart or pivot table of the results.
Excel workbook with each question shown as column heading
A survey is a great way to manage an RSVP list for a holiday party, coordinate a vacation with family, or just do some research. We hope you find this feature helpful for the holiday season, and for many years to come!
Omar Shahine
Group Program Manager, SkyDrive.com





















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