We were pretty psyched last week when the Google Docs team published this intro video for the Docs Form functionality. We’ve had a draft post on this particular topic for several weeks but we were a bit busy with deployments. The video summarizes nicely but we thought you might appreciate a couple examples.
The Google Docs spreadsheet form is useful internally and externally for capturing information without getting your hands messy. Even if you aren’t a spreadsheet or HTML superhero, you’ll soar through creating a form – it’s dead simple. Case in point, last week we were preparing for a strategy meeting and we knew that one of the output tasks would be to streamline a particular process. In a matter of 5 minutes we knocked together a form using Google Docs. Finishing just in time for the meeting, we went in and discussed it as the draft version and made changes on the fly. By the end our meeting we had a final version, so we selected a nice looking design theme (70 pre-built design themes) and called it a day.
Granted, since form content is dropped into a spreadsheet there are limits to the number of cells that can be stored (256 columns, 200K cells or 100 sheets whichever is reached first) but unless you’re looking for a massive response, you should be alright. Want to try it out? Check out this sample form we put together…
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