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Using Power Automate with Microsoft Forms

Last modified 3/4/2024

Use Microsoft Power Automate to create a flow in Microsoft Forms to automatically perform one or more tasks after it's triggered by an event.

Some examples of what can be accomplished using Power Automate with Microsoft Forms include: 

  • Change the format of dates in a flow
  • Change the response submission time zone
  • Add a group form to a flow
  • Send an email based on a conditional form response
  • Convert an attachment on a form to PDF or another file type
  • Upload form responses to a Power BI dataset
  • Save a newly submitted response from your form into an Excel spreadsheet 


Power Automate Articles

Learn how to use Power Automate by opening and reading the following articles. These links will take you to outside pages on the Microsoft website.

Microsoft Power Automate documentation

Overview of the different types of flows

Get started with Power Automate

Create an automated workflow for Microsoft Forms

Create a cloud flow from a template in Power Automate


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Microsoft Forms Homepage

Microsoft Forms help and learning – This link will take you to an outside webpage. This webpage is the homepage of Microsoft’s Forms page.


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