How to create a simple Contact Form with Google Docs

Today, we will look into creating a simple contact form using Google Docs. The submitted results of the Contact Form will be stored in an excel file and we will also apply notification settings to make sure that you get notified by e-mail whenever someone submits some info through the form.

Step 1: Go to Google Docs and create a new form by selecting New > Form.

Step 2: Play around with the template that you’re presented with and create all the fields adn configure them for data validation.

Step 3: After building the form, go to More Actions > Edit Confirmation and review and edit (if necessary) the confirmation message that is displayed to the user after submitting the form.

Step 4: Decide where you want to put the contact form. You can let Google Docs host that contact form for you by linking to the published form. You can find that link right at the end of the form building page.

Or else, you can have the contact form right within one of your pages. For this, you will have to copy/paste the embedding code. Simple go to More Actions > Embed and copy/paste the code supplied.

Step 5: Finally, to be notified whenever someone submits the form, simply go to See Responses > Spreadsheets. And now, it will present you with the spreadsheet it will store your results in. And while you’re in the spreadsheet, go to Tools > Notification Rules and edit the settings accordingly so that a mail is sent whenever the spreadsheet is edited (i.e. the form is submitted)

That’s pretty much it. And this is not only limited to contact forms. You can basically create any sort of a form like this and use it within few minutes of being created. If you want to see the live form which I created for this tutorial, just click here.

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6 Responses to “How to create a simple Contact Form with Google Docs”

1. Amitha says:

   May 19, 2009 at 9:46 am

   Thanks buddy! This was very usefull
2. Martyn says:

   May 19, 2009 at 10:02 pm

   Hi,
   Nice way of making a contact form, but is it spam proof? Or is there a way to make it spam proof e.g CAPTCHA.

   Many thanks,
   Martyn.
3. Nadeesha Cabral says:

   May 19, 2009 at 10:23 pm

   @Martyn,

   It’s not actually spam proof. That’s like the only disadvantage of using it. But I guess you can use the data validation rules in spreadsheets and make a math question or something to keep most of the spam out.
4. massage says:

   June 10, 2009 at 8:00 am

   very helpful, thank you very much!
5. Bertram says:

   August 14, 2009 at 12:06 pm

   Very useful and handy.

   Thanks
6. shiido says:

   August 25, 2009 at 7:54 pm

   i was trying to do this, then searched on Google and voilá!, thanks.