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How to ensure "Name" column of MS form is synced using Power automate

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Posted on by CU27120800-0 4

From the previous guide to populate new MS form response to an excel sheet,

 

there's a step to "Map the fields from your form to the columns in your Excel table by selecting dynamic content for each column."

 

How to ensure the "Name" column can be mapped - since it is not a question in the form and can't be chosen.

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    Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
     
    Regarding the step Map the fields from your form to the columns in your Excel table by selecting dynamic content for each column.
     
    What does it meant is you need to map the question answer to excel column where you need to get i populated. For example - assume there is a question in MS Form - what is product? and we need to populate the same in column in excel with name Product , so we select the dynamic content from get response details action which represent the question answer and add it in field corresponding to Product column. So it does not always need to have the same question title should be used as column name in excel, it is based on user requirement.
     
    See how i have mapped the form response to this action.
     
     
     

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    CU27120800-0 4 on at
    Thanks Nived. In the Settings of the form, there's an option to tick "Record name" and that triggers a column - Name in the form response excel. This is a auto-generated column, same as the columns like Responders' Email and Submission time.
     
    The Name column is not available to be mapped just like Responders' Email and Submission time

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