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How to Fix Microsoft Forms Email Notifications Not Showing Responses

Tauseeq Magsi Sep 30, 2026 868 views

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Users are receiving Microsoft Forms notification emails that only contain a link to the form results, instead of listing the submitted questions and answers in the email body.

How to Fix Microsoft Forms Email Notifications Not Showing Responses

Product: Microsoft Forms
Device & OS: not provided
Scenario: Receiving email notifications after a user submits a form response.
Observed behavior: The email layout has changed to only show a direct link to the form rather than displaying the actual submitted response details.

Before you start

Verify that your Microsoft 365 account has access to Power Automate, as creating a custom workflow is currently the only supported method to include full form responses directly in your email notifications.

Solution 1Recommended

Use Power Automate to Include Responses in Emails

Since Microsoft Forms removed the built-in feature to show answers in emails, you can build a quick flow in Power Automate to send customized emails containing all submission details.

Microsoft recently updated the default email layout for Forms, sending only a link instead of the full data. Power Automate allows you to bypass this limitation by extracting the submitted answers and formatting them into a standard Outlook email.

Create a new automated cloud flow

Log in to Microsoft Power Automate, click on 'Create', and select 'Automated cloud flow'. Name your flow and select the trigger 'When a new response is submitted' under Microsoft Forms.

Link your form

In the trigger setup, select your specific form from the 'Form Id' dropdown menu.

Get response details

Add a new action and search for 'Get response details'. Select your form again in the Form Id field, and in the 'Response Id' field, select the dynamic content 'Response Id' generated by your trigger.

Set up the email action

Add another action called 'Send an email (V2)' (Office 365 Outlook). Specify your email address in the 'To' field. In the 'Body' of the email, you can now type out your questions and use the dynamic content menu to insert the exact answers submitted by the user.

Use Power Automate to Include Responses in Emails

Test your flow: After saving, submit a test response to your form to ensure the email arrives with all the correctly mapped questions and answers.

Solution 2

Submit Feature Feedback to Microsoft

Because this missing feature is due to a deliberate design change by Microsoft, submitting feedback is the official channel to request the restoration of the previous email layout.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can I revert to the old Microsoft Forms email layout?

No, Microsoft has permanently updated the default email notification layout. There is currently no built-in setting within Microsoft Forms to revert to the previous version that included all answers in the email body.

Why am I only getting a link in my form notifications?

Microsoft changed the default behavior of Forms email notifications likely to enhance data privacy and security. By sending only a direct link to the results page, plain text data is kept out of standard email servers.

Does using Power Automate for form emails require a premium license?

No, the basic connectors for Microsoft Forms and standard Office 365 Outlook emails are included in most standard Microsoft 365 business and educational subscriptions, meaning you can set this up without a premium Power Automate license.

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