Windows 10: What is New in Microsoft Forms for January 2021

Brink · Jan 13, 2021 at 4:00 PM

Entering 2021, Microsoft Formsâ new features aim to streamline your experience of accessing, creating, and distributing forms. From text formatting, specific user sharing, and creating polls for form creators, to response downloads and immersive reader for form respondents, read on to learn about our latest updates.

Text Formatting in Forms

Bold, Italicize, or Underline Form Title

Soon, you can bold, italicize, or underline words in Forms, allowing you to create forms that emphasize and differentiate content with hierarchy. When composing any text content in your form, you can format the text via the floating tool bar that appears when you highlight the text. Or, format your text using the known keyboard shortcuts: control/command + B/I/U.

With a quick click or shortcut, you can highlight or lowlight information without leaving the current interface. Starting rollout soon, this feature will be generally available by late January.

Bold, Italicize, or Underline Form Questions and Answer Choices

Specific User Sharing for Response Collection

With this feature, you can determine who within your organization is allowed to respond to a form or quiz you have created. Under the âShareâ button, you can select âSpecific people in my organization can respondâ from the drop-down menu to activate this feature. Then, you can specify the particular individuals or groups by entering the individual or group email addresses.

Specific People Can Respond - Desktop

This experience is just as intuitive on mobile, whether you are using the Office app or your mobile web browser. After tapping the paper airplane icon to share your phone, you will find the option to limit your respondent pool with âSpecific people in my organization can respond.â

Specific People Can Respond - Mobile

Download or Print Your Form Response

Soon, you can enable form respondentsâboth internal and external to your organizationâto save or print a copy of their answers to your form or quiz. To enable this feature, head to âSettingsâ at the top right corner of your forms page, and select âAllow receipt of responses after submission.â

After completing the form, respondents will have the option to save or print a PDF of the form with their filled-in answers on the âThank Youâ page. This feature is rolling out and will reach all users by the end of this month.

Option to Print or Download Answers on Thank You page

Please note that selecting this setting still allows form respondents who are internal to your organization to ask for an email receipt of their form. For more information on this specific functionality, which was available since last January, please see our previous blog post.

New Forms Start Page Experience

If you have used Forms recently on either your desktop or mobile browser, you may have noticed that you land on a newly designed start page on Office.com. Whether you already access Forms from your sidebar on Office.com already, or you always visited forms.microsoft.com directly, you will experience this new interface as someone with an Enterprise, Business, Education, or Personal account.

Office.com Forms Start Page

Office.com Start Page - Mobile Browser

Right away, you can find your recently used forms. You can pin any of your forms for quick access under the âPinnedâ tab. Under âShared with me,â youâll find all forms that have been shared with you as a collaborator. When you scroll to the bottom of the page, you can access group forms under the Microsoft 365 of which you are a part. Then, right above group forms, you can go to âAll My Formsâ to view a larger list of your forms. From there, you can find your deleted forms, as well as Copy, Move, and Delete any of your forms.

Move, Copy or Delete Forms under "All My Forms"

Immersive Reader in Forms for Anonymous Users

Last year, we enabled https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fprq9Uz5DNoc&data=04%7C01%7CMelinda.Hu%40microsoft.com%7Cd72693e959f64eb41f2708d88ce89fca%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637414278043467159%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=cFf2P3WKKZP0xH6LbdFOP2h3udAAMDmeY5NVb16yFNk%3D&reserved=0 who are logged in to their Microsoft accounts to improve the readability and accessibility of Microsoft Forms on both desktop and mobile. Recently, we made Immersive Reader available to any respondents filling out a form, whether you are logged in to your Microsoft account or not. Simply click the ââ¦â near the top of the form to enable Immersive Reader.

Immersive Reader in Forms for All Respondents

Increased Capacity for Polls in Other Microsoft 365 Apps

With Polls in Teams Meetings becoming available in late November, we wanted to help you leverage polls not just in meetings, but across Outlook, PowerPoint Live Presentations, and Teams chat and channels too. Now, you have additional capacity to use polls in other apps: an additional 200 beyond the current 200-form limit. In other words, polls you create starting in January 2021 will count towards the new limit of 200; however, polls made before the end of December are still counted in the original 200-form limit.

We hope you explore and use these latest updates. If you have additional questions on Forms surveys, quizzes, or polls, please visit our Support page. You can also watch @Mike Tholfsen's video on the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtQbMdqXjxQ&list=PLdHjJccRYryPeh0rv5HSHPpmQxzd3n0Kt&index=1 to strengthen your Forms' skills.

To provide feedback, please visit our Forms UserVoice site. You can also join discussions in the Microsoft Forms Tech Community and follow the Forms Blog to stay updated in the future.
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Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...1/ba-p/2054434

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NICK ADSL UK · Jan 13, 2021 at 9:22 PM

Microsoft January 2021 Security Updates

January 2021 Security Updates

The January 2021 security release consists of security updates for the following software:

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based)

Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps

Microsoft Windows Codecs Library

Visual Studio

SQL Server

Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

.NET Core

.NET Repository

ASP .NET

Azure

Please note the following information regarding the security updates:

CVE-2020-0689 has been re-released. For further information see Security update for Secure Boot DBX: January 12, 2021.

For information regarding enabling Windows 10, version 1909 features, please see Windows 10, version 1909 delivery options. Note that Windows 10, versions 1903 and 1909 share a common core operating system with an identical set of system files. They will also share the same security update KBs.

Windows 10 updates are cumulative. The monthly security release includes all security fixes for vulnerabilities that affect Windows 10, in addition to non-security updates. The updates are available via the Microsoft Update Catalog.

For information on lifecycle and support dates for Windows 10 operating systems, please see Windows Lifecycle Facts Sheet.

A list of the latest servicing stack updates for each operating system can be found in ADV990001. This list will be updated whenever a new servicing stack update is released. It is important to install the latest servicing stack update.

Updates for Windows RT 8.1 and Microsoft Office RT software are only available via Windows Update.

In addition to security changes for the vulnerabilities, updates include defense-in-depth updates to help improve security-related features.

Customers running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2008 need to purchase the Extended Security Update to continue receiving security updates. See 4522133 for more information.

The following CVEs have FAQs with additional information. Please note that this is not a complete list of CVEs for this release.

CVE-2020-26870

CVE-2021-1636

CVE-2021-1637

CVE-2021-1643

CVE-2021-1644

CVE-2021-1645

CVE-2021-1647

CVE-2021-1648

CVE-2021-1656

CVE-2021-1663

CVE-2021-1669

CVE-2021-1670

CVE-2021-1672

CVE-2021-1676

CVE-2021-1677

CVE-2021-1694

CVE-2021-1696

CVE-2021-1699

CVE-2021-1707

CVE-2021-1708

CVE-2021-1711

CVE-2021-1713

CVE-2021-1714

CVE-2021-1715

CVE-2021-1716

CVE-2021-1725

Known Issues

The following KBs contain information about known issues with the security updates. For a complete list of security update KBs, please see 20210112. For more information about Windows Known Issues, please see Windows message center (links to currently-supported versions of Windows are in the left pane).

KB Article Applies To
4598229 Windows 10, Version 1903, Windows Server, Version 1903, Windows 10, Version 1909, Windows Server, Version 1909
4598230 Windows 10, Version 1809, Windows Server 2019
4598242 Windows 10, Version 2004, Windows Server, Version 2004, Windows 10, Version 20H2, Windows Server, Version 20H2
4598275 Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 (Security-only update)
4598278 Windows Server 2012 (Monthly Rollup)
4598279 Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Monthly Rollup)
4598285 Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 (Monthly Rollup)
4598287 Windows Server 2008 (Security-only update)
4598288 Windows Server 2008 (Monthly Rollup)
4598289 Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Security-only update)
4598297 Windows Server 2012 (Security-only update)

January 2021 Security Updates - Release Notes - Security Update Guide - Microsoft

Brink · Jan 13, 2021 at 9:22 PM

Microsoft announces 100% integration of Office.com and Microsoft Forms

We are thrilled to announce 100% integration of Office.com and Microsoft Forms for our commercial and consumer customers! This means multiple ways for you to create a new form, find an existing form, or search for a form in the suite header of Office.com.

To create a new form, click New, and then choose Forms survey.

To access existing forms, go to the Recent tab under Documents.

You can also search for an existing form by title.

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We’d love to get your feedback about this feature. Please go to the Microsoft Forms UserVoice site to offer suggestions or vote on ideas others have already submitted.
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Source: Start Forms journey from office.com - Microsoft Tech Community - 369912

Brink · Jan 13, 2021 at 9:22 PM

Microsoft announces 100% integration of Office.com and Microsoft Forms Office

We are thrilled to announce 100% integration of Office.com and Microsoft Forms for our commercial and consumer customers! This means multiple ways for you to create a new form, find an existing form, or search for a form in the suite header of Office.com.

To create a new form, click New, and then choose Forms survey.

To access existing forms, go to the Recent tab under Documents.

You can also search for an existing form by title.

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We’d love to get your feedback about this feature. Please go to the Microsoft Forms UserVoice site to offer suggestions or vote on ideas others have already submitted.
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Source: Start Forms journey from office.com - Microsoft Tech Community - 369912

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