Posted by: Andrew Bonventre, Spreadsheets engineer and Michelle Lee, Spreadsheets designer
Today we’re asking you to do something new: stop sharing spreadsheets.
Well…
only sometimes, and only in certain situations. See, we’ve noticed
that, in some cases, you want to collect just a tiny bit of information
from dozens, scores, or even hundreds of users or more. Some of them
are Google Docs users. Some of them are not. Either way, you don’t
always want them all mucking around with the whole spreadsheet and
you’re tired of telling those new to Google Docs that they don’t need
to switch to Gmail just to use Docs (huh? you didn’t know that either?).
We’re really excited to bring you forms!
Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone
with an email address. They won’t need to sign in, and they can respond
directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web
page. Creating the form is easy: start with a spreadsheet to get the
form, or start by creating the form and you’ll get the spreadsheet
automatically.
Responses are automatically added to your spreadsheet. You can even keep a closer eye on them by adding the Google Docs forms gadget
to your iGoogle homepage, created by software engineers Valerie Blechar
and Sarah Beth Eisinger (in her first month at Google!). It lists your
recent active forms, with new responses highlighted. Add this gadget to
your iGoogle page: 
At
Google, we’ve already been using it for signups, surveys, and
miscellaneous mischief. And we can’t wait to see what you do with forms
in Google Docs.
P.S. Navigate all the extra data you’re collecting with the new freeze columns
feature. It’s been our most requested feature for twelve months, but we
hope you’ll cut software engineer Eric Bogs a break since he’s only
been here for a few!
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