View & manage form responses

Responders can access the published forms, but you can also manage to stop accepting responses and responders get a message “The form is no longer accepting response” or a custom message.

1. In a published form, at the top right, click Published .
2. Turn off Accepting responses.
3. Optional: To edit the message shown to the responder, click Edit.
4. Click Save.

Tip: You can’t accept responses in unpublished forms.

Record the email addresses from people who fill out your form. When someone takes your survey, they will be required to enter their email address before they submit the form.

Collect verified emails

Important: Respondents must confirm their Google Account email address gets collected with their response. The confirmation displays on each page of the form.

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top, click Settings.
3. Next to “Responses,” click the Down arrow .
4. Under "Collect email addresses," select Verified.

Collect emails manually

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top, click Settings.
3. Next to “Responses,” click the Down arrow .
4. Under "Collect email addresses," select Responder input.

If your form creates charts in your "Responses" section, you can copy and paste them into other files.

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. Click Responses.
3. At the top right of a chart, click Copy .
4. Paste the chart wherever you would like.

Tip: If you copy and paste a chart into Google Docs, Slides, or Drawings, you can update the chart directly from the doc, presentation, or drawing as long as you have edit access to the  doc, presentation, or drawing, and the form.

If you collect responder emails, you can choose whether respondents get a copy of their answers.

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top of the form, click Settings.
3. To turn on "Collect email addresses," select an option:
   • Verified for verified email collection
   • Responder entry for manual email collection
4. Next to “Responses,” click the Down arrow .
5. Next to “Send responders a copy of their response,” select When requested or Always.

Tip: In certain circumstances, responders may not receive expected response receipts due to spam filters or other counter-abuse measures.

If certain features in your form don’t work as expected, it might be because it has a large number of responses. These limits ensure Forms work reliably for all users. Your form continues to receive responses, which you can download in a CSV file.

• If you don’t find the response summary, it can be because your form has more than 50,000 responses.
• If your form’s responses aren’t synced with Sheets, it can be because your form has more than 100,000 responses.
• If you download your responses in a CSV file and the responses aren’t sorted by the timestamp when users submit them, it can be because your form has more than 10,000 responses.
• If you don’t find the question or individual view for responses in Forms, it can be because your form has more than 10,000 responses.