New In-line poll experience in Outlook Web

I'd like to introduce you to our brand-new poll experience in Outlook web with Microsoft Loop to streamline your workflow. The current process of creating polls in Outlook can be somewhat cumbersome and less user-friendly. Email/poll composers must navigate through a side-pane to create a poll and cannot preview how it will appear to recipients before sending the email. With the in-line experience that Microsoft Loop provides, they can now create polls directly within an email thread. Recipients can then vote in line and instantly check the real-time poll results. Let's dive into this amazing new feature and explore it together!

Intuitive entry point for insertion

In Outlook web, just click on "Insert" in the ribbon, and select "Polls" to effortlessly add a poll into your email body. Insert a poll into Outlook web now!


Insert polls into your email

In-line poll creation

The enhanced poll experience offers a seamless method for crafting polls directly within the email, eliminating the need to switch between the side-pane and the email body. Additionally, you can add multiples polls and choose a variety of question types while creating the poll for different scenarios. For example, an email aimed at gauging team morale, you can incorporate a ranking question to assess activity preferences and a multiple-choice question to determine preferred time slots.


In-line poll creation

WYSIYG (What You See is What You Get)

Previously, email/poll composers could only see a hyperlink of the poll when creating it within an email, now they have the ability to preview exactly how the poll will appear to recipients before sending the email.


WYSIYG

In-line poll vote experience with live result

Once recipients get the email, they can easily vote in line without being redirected to Forms web, and both the email composer and recipients can see the live results as new responses coming in. It's important to note that the email composer will need to navigate to the "sent items" in mailbox to view the live results.


In-line poll vote experience with live result

Fallback experience to Forms web

In the initial phase, Loop Polls is now fully enabled for Outlook web. If recipients receive emails containing embedded polls via Outlook desktop or mobile, they will still see the hyperlink and being redirected to Forms web to continue voting.


Fallback experience

Our goal is to ensure in-line poll availability across all platforms towards the end of this year. Try to insert a poll now!