Digital signatures on Forms?

Anonymous
2024-05-12T13:32:38+00:00

I'm making a consent/waiver form on "Forms" and need to obtain digital signatures for each form. I've seen online that you can click the tools menu and add this into a form, under "form options " but I can't find any tools menu. Can anyone help?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-05-12T19:56:32+00:00

    Hello Amanda West, Welcome to Microsoft community!

    Based on your description, I understand that you seem to want to get a digital signature for each form.

    What needs to be explained to you is this:

    A digital signature is a method of verifying digital information, similar to signing a paper document. In Microsoft Forms, the ability to add a digital signature is not available by itself. However, there are workarounds using other Microsoft services such as Power Automate (formerly known as Microsoft Flow) to create a process whereby the form submitter can confirm their submission via email, which can be used as a form of digital confirmation.

    For more detailed form designs, Microsoft InfoPath (part of the Microsoft Office suite) allows digital signatures to be enabled for the entire form or specific parts of the form. This feature ensures that once a form is signed, it cannot be changed without invalidating the signature.

    If you want to add a digital signature to a Microsoft form, consider using Power Automate to set up a flow that sends an email confirmation to the submitter, which can then be used as a validation step 1. This is not a digital signature in the traditional sense, but it can be used as a form of user validation of the submitted data.

    You can refer to this link which may help you: how could i add digital signature to Forms? - Microsoft Community Hub

    For more information on how to enable digital signatures please refer to: Enable or disable digital signatures - Microsoft Support

    In addition, the completion of this type of workflow is more appropriate for the PowerAutomate community. Here is the link to the community: Microsoft Power Automate Community - Power Platform Community

    Please feel free to let me know if you have any further updates, thanks for your support and understanding.

    Best regards

    Isabella-MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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