Let’s assume you’ve just conducted a Survey. What should be the next logical step?
The next step should be analyzing the data for hidden answers, which you can incorporate into a report.
This is where survey-oriented visualization designs come in.
These graphs can help you display insights into your survey data from online forms faster and more conveniently. Besides, these charts are easy to read and interpret, irrespective of your experience with charts.
Also, you can leverage these graphs as a backdrop for your data stories.
Excel spreadsheet lacks charts designed explicitly for visualizing web forms data. We’re not recommending you do away with Excel in favor of other pricey tools.
You can install a particular third-party add-in into Excel to access ready-made visualization designs for visualizing web form data.
In this blog, you’ll learn the following:
Before jumping right into the blog’s core, we’ll address the following question: what is a web form?
Definition: A web form is an online document you’ve to fill out to complete a process or overcome a subscription wall.
In other words, it’s a page that your users request using their browser to fill in their details. Web forms can be written using a combination of:
When your users request a web form, it is compiled and executed on the server. And then, the framework generates an HTML markup that your target users’ browser can display.
In the coming section, we’ll take you through the importance of web forms in collecting responses.
Web forms are critical to the success of your business.
Yes, you read that right.
Contact and registration forms and online surveys can help you gather customer data.
Do you intend to collect some data but do not know where to start?
There are web form builder apps you can use. Some of these free builders include Microsoft Forms. These tools are incredibly reliable, whether collecting qualitative or quantitative data for research, conducting a quick poll, or even hiring.
Keep reading because, in the coming section, we’ll take you through how to export web forms to populate Excel spreadsheets with data.
Microsoft Forms is a free application you can use to create shareable web forms for gathering data.
So, how can I collect data from a web form to populate an Excel spreadsheet?
Imagine you’ve created a web form for data collection.
You’ve also created a questionnaire to share with the intended audience. You intend to export your data to Excel for visualization.
Let’s assume the survey has one question: how would you rate your overall satisfaction with the service you’ve received?
Follow the easy steps below.
Now that we’ve exported data from a web form to populate an Excel spreadsheet, how do you analyze it?
In the coming section, we’ll show you how to analyze Excel spreadsheet data.
Data visualization is a form of analysis you can use to extract answers from your data. Excel is one of the best tools for visualizing data using maps, charts, and graphs.
However, the spreadsheet application lacks ready-made new product survey question examples with charts, such as the Likert Chart and CSAT Score Survey Chart.
We’re not advising you to do away with Excel in favor of other expensive tools.
This is because there’s an amazingly affordable visualization tool that comes as an add-in you can easily install in Excel to access insightful and easy-to-customize survey charts. The tool is called ChartExpo.
So, what is ChartExpo?
ChartExpo is an add-in you can easily install in your Excel without needing tutorials.
With many ready-to-go and insightful charts, graphs, and maps, ChartExpo turns your complex, raw data into easy-to-interpret and visually appealing charts in Excel that tell real-time data stories.
More benefits
In the coming section, we’ll show you how to analyze the survey results imported from Web Forms in Excel using ChartExpo.
This section will Use a CSAT Score Survey Chart (one of the web form-oriented graphs) to analyze the data below.
Insights
Contact and registration forms and online surveys can help you gather customer data.
Start by sharing your form either via email or URL. Once you have all the responses, click the Open in Excel button.
Your data will download and open using the Excel application.
We recommend you use Power Automate (previously Microsoft Flow). It is an automation tool that allows you to pass data from one platform to another. It can be configured to run various triggers, such as when a new form response is received.
Once the trigger (event) occurs, the forms will respond accordingly.
If you’ve just conducted a survey exercise, the next stage should be analyzing the data for hidden answers.
This is where survey-oriented visualization designs come in.
These graphs can help you display insights into your survey data from online forms faster and more conveniently. Besides, these charts are easy to read and interpret, irrespective of your experience with charts.