Collating Data via Online Surveys - What Are the Options?

[us722]

I currently send out a survey spreadsheet to various folks. They respond and I compile each response one by one. This then gets sorted and finally I get to analyze the results. As you can tell, this is very repetitive and tedious. I would love to automate this completely.

I looked online and found a solution: Office365 forms. Pretty fine and impressive.

Obviously, part of surveys is to keep results confidential from every respondent. I'm curious if folks here have any other ideas? Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[AliGW]

Welcome to the forum.

As this is not specifically an Excel query, I have moved your thread to the area for general chit chat.

I presume you have looked at Survey Monkey? It really depends what you are wanting to do and how you wish to process your data - some more information about your aims and objectives would help.

[us722]

Thanks a lot. I have looked at Survey monkey but having a hard time organizing data afterwards. Currently I send out a spreadsheet to the pool - say 50 people. They respond by replying and filling out the same spreadsheet I sent them earlier. I need to keep track of who's responded and sometimes follow-up. As responses come in, I enter them into excel and create different tables/graphs to analyze the data. I'm hoping to eliminate as many steps as possible and jump to the last - analysis.

[AliGW]

So what's the problem with Office 365 forms? What is it that isn't working well enough for you there? I'm really not quite clear what you are hoping for.

[us722]

I would like to try more than one option just so I know how far I can take this

[AliGW]

OK. Well, we use Office forms where I work and they seem to work very well. I'm still not clear what you mean by "how far I can take this". What is it about Office forms that doesn't get you as far as you want?