MS Forms Dynamic Value showing up as letters/numbers not title

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Posted on by BM-15011729-0

Hi all,

I have a flow that pulls responses from a MS Form to populate a MS Word Document and then creates a separate file for each response submitted.

I am able to see the names or titles of the majority of the MS Form questions as dynamic values when I'm trying to assign the responses to the specific areas in my Word Template with the exception of a few coming in as just strings of letters/numbers. Which means, I don't know which question in my Form is the correct question to pull for my Word Template.

Where have I gone wrong? Surely, I don't have to go through trial and error guessing my way through which question is which, right? Help!

Thank you!

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David_MA 12,982 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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What you are experiencing does happen and I don't know how to avoid it. I can just suggest two options:

Delete the question from your flow and add it again. When adding it, give it a short name that is enough for your to know what it is in your flow. Then rename it to something longer afterward.

Submit a request yourself and note the answers you provide. If they are text fields, put in text that will help make it easy to identify the question.

Then submit a request and look at a flow run and click on show raw outputs under Outputs. This will show you the JSON body of the get response details action (see image below).

Look through body of the JSON for the GUID of the question (these are the letters/numbers you describe) that corresponds to the answer for the question you submitted in step 1. The GUID value is important, because it allows you to alter the question without impacting the flow. Did you reword the questions that now show the GUID without the display name?

Create a variable for the question with a meaningful name and populate it with the value from the dynamic content.

Once the variable is populated, you can then use the variable with the more meaningful name in your flow.

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David_MA 12,982 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Another method to find what GUID corresponds to the question is to open up your form in MS Forms in design mode. Then open the developer tools window in your browser (F12 key in Edge). Press <ctrl>+<f> to open the search box (be sure that your cursor is in the developer code window, or it will open the browser search rather than the code search box). Then paste the GUID of a question in the search box and press enter. The developer tools will highlight the question in your form. It will only highlight it for a few seconds, but if you click the up/down arrows in the search box, it will highlight the different elements of the question in the HTML as shown below.

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