Tobias Maestrini

Microsoft Forms – Service limitations and boundaries

Best Practices Microsoft Forms Governance Microsoft 365

Reference: Linkedin Post by Ami Diamond (08/2024)

Tip

Service boundaries and limits are subject to change. Therefore, this overview should be considered carefully.
👉 Check the official resource documentation.

Form, poll, question, and response limits

  • Max Forms/quizzes to Create: Up to 400
  • Max Polls to Create: Up to 400
  • Max Questions per form/quiz are allowed: Up to 200
  • Max Responses can a form/quiz receive: Up to 5’000’000
  • The form limit includes those in the re-cycle bin.
  • For Forms above 50’000 responses, users can export all responses as a .csv for analysis. some features are not currently supported for Forms above 50’000 responses:
    Summary charts & graphs, View individual responses from the forms site, Printing, Sharing a summary link, annual grading / commenting / posting scores for quizzes

Character limits

  • Max Characters allowed per question: Up to 4’000
  • Max Characters are allowed per response for a single question: Up to 4’000
  • Max Characters are allowed for total responses per form/quiz: Up to 200’000 per response
  • Max Characters are allowed per form description box: Up to 1,700
  • Max Characters are allowed per thank you message: Up to 4’000
  • Max Characters are allowed per a form title: Up to 90
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