Google-sheets – Will working with an active Google Form responses sheet mess anything up

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I'd like to sort rows and remove duplicates while the form is live and the responses sheet is receiving incoming responses.

Will my working on the sheet while a response is coming in cause any possible problems?

Best Answer

It is NOT recommented to work on the responce sheet itself.

Step 1

Form responses 1 being the first one, on a second sheet (eg. Master) create a "live" copy of the existing -and future- data using importrange or a query or .....

You can read more about available functions on the official help page

Examples:

=IMPORTRANGE("XXXXXYCSXvZveTw7IaSHxUiMysa7FY7XXXXX","Form responses 1")

=QUERY( 'Form responses 1'!1:1000,"select * ")

Step 2

On a third sheet (eg. Calculations) do all the alterations you need keeping all original data intact.