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When you leverage the Forms integration in PowerPoint, you can access many of the data collection and analysis features directly from a presentation slide — either through PowerPoint on the web or in the desktop app.
You can either insert the form for presentation mode and collect responses from viewers of your presentation, or embed the form so recipients of your slide can answer offline.
In this article, learn how to:
Create a new form or quiz on a slide in PowerPoint desktop app
Create a new form or quiz on a slide in PowerPoint on the web
Insert an existing form or quiz in PowerPoint
You can create a new form or quiz in Microsoft Forms and insert it into your PowerPoint presentation.
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Inserting a form is only available to Office 365 Education and Microsoft 365 Apps for business customers with version 1807 (Build 16.0.10711.20012) or later of PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 on a PC.
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People responding to a form or quiz can use PowerPoint on a PC, macOS, or the web.
Create a new form or quiz on a slide in PowerPoint desktop app
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Open PowerPoint. Make sure you're signed in to Microsoft 365 with your school or work account to access the Forms feature.
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Open your PowerPoint presentation and place the curser in the slide in which you want to insert a form or quiz.
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On the ribbon, select Insert > Forms.
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A Forms panel will open and dock on the right side of your PowerPoint presentation.
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Under My forms, select New Form or New Quiz to begin creating a form or quiz.
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A new window will open with a blank form and default title ("Untitled form"). Learn more about how to create a form or create a quiz.
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When you're done creating your form or quiz, it will be embedded in your PowerPoint slide and appear at the top of your My forms list under the New Form and New Quiz buttons.
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If you don't see Forms on the Insert tab, your administrator may have turned this feature off for your organization. Contact your admin to turn on the Forms feature in PowerPoint for your organization.
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Note for admins: If you haven't deployed Office add-ins for your organization, you can still enable usage of the Forms feature in PowerPoint. Learn more.
Important: If you're unable to insert a form, make sure your web add-ins aren't disabled. In PowerPoint, select Files > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings. In the Trust Center dialog box, choose Trusted Add-in Catalogs. Under Use these settings to manage your web add-in catalogs, uncheck both, Don't allow any web add-ins to start and Don't allow web add-ins from the Office Store to start.
Create a new form or quiz on a slide in PowerPoint on the web
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Sign in to Microsoft 365 with your school or work credentials.
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From the Navigation pane, select Apps > PowerPoint.
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Open your PowerPoint presentation and place your curser on the slide in which you want to insert a form or quiz.
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On the Home tab, select Add-ins > Forms. If you don't see Forms, use the search bar to find it. If the Forms Add-in hasn't been installed yet, select Add.
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A Forms module will display on the slide. From here, enter the URL of the form or quiz you'd like to insert. If you don't know the URL, use the link in the Forms module to search for it.
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Select the view you'd like to insert. Choose from either Present for interactive meetings or Collect responses offline.
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If you don't see Forms on the Insert tab, your administrator may have turned this feature off for your organization. Contact your admin to turn on the Forms feature in PowerPoint for your organization.
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Note for admins: If you haven't deployed Office add-ins for your organization, you can still enable usage of the Forms feature in PowerPoint. Learn more.
Important: If you're unable to insert a form, make sure your web add-ins aren't disabled. In PowerPoint, select Files > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings. In the Trust Center dialog box, choose Trusted Add-in Catalogs. Under Use these settings to manage your web add-in catalogs, uncheck both, Don't allow any web add-ins to start and Don't allow web add-ins from the Office Store to start.
Insert an existing form or quiz in PowerPoint
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Find the form or quiz you want to insert into your slide under My forms in the panel.
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Hover over the title of the form or quiz and select Insert.
You can also select Edit if you have more changes to make or want to review results of the form or quiz.
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Your form or quiz is now embedded in your PowerPoint slide.
Note: If you try to insert a form into your slide, but see the error message, Office 365 has been configured to prevent individual acquisition and execution of Office Store Add-ins, reach out to your admin to turn on the feature. Admins can sign in to https://admin.microsoft.com, and then click Settings > Settings > User owned apps and services. For the option, Let users access the Office store, your admin can check it to specifically enable access to the Forms add-in, which will allow people in your organization to insert a form into PowerPoint. Please be aware that it may take a few hours for the change to take effect. Learn more.
Important: In PowerPoint for the web, any Forms content added to a slide can't be printed successfully from there. In order to print such content, you would need to switch to the PowerPoint desktop app on Windows or macOS and print the slide from there.
Check the responses to your form or quiz in PowerPoint
To see the responses to your form or quiz, sign in to your Microsoft 365 account at forms.office.com. Open the appropriate form from your Forms page, and then select the View responses tab at the top of the page. Learn more at Check and share your form results.
Feedback for Microsoft Forms
We want to hear from you! To send feedback about Microsoft Forms, go to the upper right corner of your form and select More form settings
See also
Create a form with Microsoft Forms
Create a quiz with Microsoft Forms
