Google-ing with Google Docs is always fun as it keeps on adding support for various file formats such as the recently added PDF support. It has recently added a feature that will facilitate its users to directly create ‘Forms’ by selecting an option from the New menu.
The feature allows you to built a customized form with few clicks only. User can add questions, email or embed the form and obviously can save it in a real time. It doesn’t require a manual saving process by the user and thus once created you can alter or re-arrange your questions by automatically saving it.
The instant creation of forms with the Google Docs is quiet appreciable. But it has got some major limitations that is really time consuming. Such as, it saves form in the spreadsheets but will not provide a link of a specific spreadsheet that includes your form, making it way too hard for a user to go back and hunt for his form from the pool of listed documents.
The relation of spreadsheets with forms does not make any sense. This restricts users to create a form with the spreadsheet and thus greatly influence the level of independency. They should make a separate database for forms to make it more flexible and user friendly.
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