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Publish your form
Before responders can access your form, you need to publish it. When your form is ready to share, you can share it through email, social media, or embed on a website or blog.
- At the top right, click Publish.
- To select who can respond to the form, click Manage.
- To give responder access to the users, add them to your form.
- Click Share.
- Optional: To notify the responders, click Notify these responders.
- You can also include a message.
- Click Publish or Publish and notify.
- Optional: Under “General access,” you can give access to anyone with a link or to target audiences.
- Click Done
Publish.
- Once your form is published, at the top right, it shows “Published.”
- To change publishing options, click Published.
Share your form with responders
- Open a form in Google Forms.
- To share your form with responders, click Share
.
- Optional: Under “General access,” you can give access to anyone with a link or target audiences.
- Enter the names of the people or groups.
- To select the level of access, next to the responder names, click Down arrow
- Optional: To select a date to remove access to the form:
- Click Add expiration.
- In the calendar, select a date.
- Click Done.
- Optional: To remove expiration, click Edit expiration
- Optional: To select a date to remove access to the form:
- If the form is published, an email notification will be shared when you send the form.
- Optional: For published forms, you can add a message to your email notification.
- Optional: If you don’t want to send a notification, uncheck the box next to “Notify People.”
- Click Send.
Email your form
To automatically send the form in an email notification when you share a form, click the box next to “Notify People.” If you notify responders when you publish the form, the email sent to them includes the form.
Tip: You can’t embed a form in an email when it contains:
- File upload question
- Rating question
- Image in a question or an option
- Secured quiz
Share a link to your form
To get the form link for responders, you can either:
- At the top right, click Preview
- Once you publish the form, click Published
- At the top right, click Share
Tip: You can copy a short link once you publish the form:
- Click the box next to “Shorten URL.”
- Click Copy.
Add a form to a website or blog
To embed a form on a website or blog:
- Open a form in Google Forms.
- At the top right, click More menu
.
- Select Embed HTML
.
- To copy the HTML that shows, click Copy.
- Paste the HTML into your website or blog.
Get form responses
Open the Responses tab
In Forms, you can see a summary of all responses or look at individual responses on the Response tab. You can also view the form questions by clicking on the Question tab. To switch between individual responses, click the individual’s email.
Learn more at the Google Docs Editors Help Center
Send responses to a spreadsheet
- Open a form in Google Forms.
- At the top, click Responses
- At the top right, click More
- Select an option:
- Create a new spreadsheet: Creates a spreadsheet for responses in Google Sheets.
- When you use your Google Forms data to create a new sheet, Google Sheets automatically puts your data in a table, bringing format and structure to your data. Learn how to use tables in Google Sheets.
- Select existing spreadsheet: To store responses, select from your existing spreadsheets in Google Sheets.
- Create a new spreadsheet: Creates a spreadsheet for responses in Google Sheets.
- Click Create or Select.
Stop collecting responses
When you create a new form, response collection is automatically turned on. You can pause or stop it. For example, if you find a mistake after sending out a form, you can pause response collection until the error is fixed.
- Open a form in Google Forms.
- At the top right, click Published.
- Turn Accepting responses from On to Off.
- Click Save.
After you've turned this off, you'll see a message in the "Responses" tab that says "This form isn't accepting responses."
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