How To Use Google Forms: Beginner's Guide

 Google Forms is a convenient tool for creating forms easily and for free. While it's great for quickly making forms, there are also risks of information leaks, so it's important to be cautious.

Even for those new to using Google Forms, I'll explain it gently to ensure you can create forms confidently. I'll also introduce the advantages and disadvantages of Google Forms.

What is Google Forms? Advantages of Google Forms:

• Free to create
• Created forms have responsive design and responses can be compiled in a spreadsheet
• Easy to share and collaborate on

Disadvantages and Points to Note for Google Forms:

• Simple design; unable to customize automatic reply emails
• Does not support automatic address input from postal codes; lacks payment function
• While easy to share, be careful of setting viewing restrictions; incidents of personal

Information leaks may occur How to Create Google Forms Examples of Using Google Forms:

• Surveys
• Simple tests
• Order forms Recommended Settings for Google Forms:

• Form mailer is also recommended Utilizing Google Forms

What is Google Forms?

Advantages of Google Forms

• Free to create
• Forms created have responsive design, and responses can be compiled in a spreadsheet
• Easy to share and collaborate on Disadvantages and Points to Note for Google Forms
• Simple design; unable to customize automatic reply emails
• Doesn't support automatic address input from postal codes; lacks payment function
• While easy to share, be careful of setting viewing restrictions; incidents of personal information leaks have occurred

How to Create Google Forms Examples of Using Google Forms

• Surveys
• Simple tests
• Order forms Recommended Settings for Google Forms Form mailer is also recommended

Using Google Forms

What is Google Forms? Google Forms is a form creation service provided by Google. With a Google account, you can create forms for free.

It's also used for surveys, inquiries for educational institutions and companies, as well as personal research.

One of its attractive features is the ability for multiple people to edit one form together, allowing for open collaboration.

Advantages of Google Forms Free to create

The biggest advantage of Google Forms is that you can create forms for free.

As long as you have an internet connection, you can create Google Forms in your browser. Even without knowledge of HTML or CSS, many people can easily create forms because it's user-friendly and straightforward.

Forms created have responsive design, and responses can be compiled in a spreadsheet Google Forms are designed to be responsive, compatible with both PCs and smartphones.

This means the surveys or inquiry forms you create can be accessed indoors or outdoors, allowing for responses from many people. Additionally, responses received through Google Forms can be compiled into Google Spreadsheets, making survey analysis easier.

Easy to share and collaborate on You can easily share responses from surveys with all respondents. Since response statuses can also be displayed graphically, it's easy to understand things like attendance status for events.

Moreover, it's easy for multiple people to edit one form simultaneously. By simply adding a username or email address, you can collaboratively create surveys or inquiry forms, making it very convenient.

Disadvantages and Points to Note for Google Forms

Simple design; unable to customize automatic reply emails

While Google Forms is user-friendly and convenient, there are limitations to customizing its design. You can customize aspects like the background color of the entire form or add images to the header, but changes to the layout are restricted.

Although Google Forms is easy to use and allows for easy form creation, it lacks flexibility in design. Since you can't customize the subject and body of automatic reply emails, you can't create automatic thank you emails, for example.

If you require more advanced customization, you may want to consider other form creation tools.

Doesn't support automatic address input from postal codes; lacks payment function Unfortunately, Google Forms does not support automatic address input from postal codes. Users need to manually input their postal code and address.

Regarding this aspect, other form creation tools may offer a feature that automatically completes address information when a postal code is entered. Additionally, if you want to create order forms, note that Google Forms does not have a payment function. If you want to integrate with payment services like PayPal or Stripe, you'll need to install add-ons separately.

Easy to share, but be careful of setting viewing restrictions; incidents of personal information leaks!

Google Forms allows for easy sharing and access rights settings, making it convenient to use. However, there is a risk of unintended information leaks due to misconfigured settings.

For example, there have been cases where the function to display survey response results was accidentally enabled, allowing all survey respondents to view personal information. Since it's easy to share personal information such as names, it's important to double-check form settings until the end.