Whether you are hiring new people for your team, creating surveys to analyze the market and needs, taking feedback, or even just collecting customer information to fulfill a service, Google Forms can be your go-to tool. Not only does Google Forms provide a range of tools to perform a number of cool things, but it also comes with a user-friendly interface, making everything a matter of a few clicks. A really cool feature of Google Forms is that it allows you to create a form with multiple pages. You can use this functionality to divide your form into sections or pages to give a structured flow to the form content. You can add different kinds of questions in each section of the Google Form as needed and further change how the users navigate between the different pages. In this post, we will discuss all about creating a Google Form with multiple pages. So without further ado, let’s begin!
In order to create a Google Form with multiple pages, we will first need to create a form like you would normally do. Here are the steps for the same:
Begin by creating a new form using the plus sign from the Google Forms home page. You can also begin by opening an existing form.
create a new form
add title and description
add questions
You can add as many questions as you desire using the plus icon on the right:
plus icon
Once you are done with setting up the first page, you can start creating the second page in your Google Form.
Click on the add new section option present as an equal to the symbol in the pane next to the question.
add new section
You can see that a second section is made in the form. This is your second page:
second section
Note that in order to see these sections as pages, you will have to enter the preview mode.
add title and description
add questions on the second page
This is essentially how you can create multiple pages in Google Forms. If you want more pages, simply click on the add section option and a new section will be created. Here we have created one more section:
third section
preview button
You can see that only the first section comes on the landing page:
landing page
Once we answer the questions and click on the next option, we will be taken to the next page of the form:
next
Your multi-page form is now ready. You can save it by adding a title and then start sharing it like you would normally do.
Now that you know the basics of creating a Google Form with multiple pages, let us now look at some other things that you can do to make things easier while working with multiple pages in Google Forms.
Say there is a particular question that you seem to have added in two sections and now you want to find and delete it from one of the sections. If you are working with a lot of questions, you might find it tedious to go through all the questions and the corresponding options and blanks to find the required question. Thus, to only see the questions of a section (and hide the corresponding options and answer area from view), you can use the collapse section option:
collapse section
You will see that a simple click changes the view of the section like this:
changed view
If you are not happy with the sequence in which the pages appear, then you can change that by moving the sections as desired.
three dots
move section
In the dialog box that opens, click on the six dots present to the left of the section you wish to reposition and simply drag and drop the section to the desired position.
drag and drop section
save
three dots
delete section
Note that you can only merge a given section with the section present above it. So, make sure to head over to the right section as you merge them.
three dots
merge with above
By default, the respondents can’t see how many pages a form contains. Thus, using a progress bar would not only provide the respondents with this information but would also add an element of interactivity.
settings
presentation drop down
show progress bar
You can see that now when you preview the form, there is a progress bar present at the bottom of the form:
resultant progress bar
You can change how the form user navigates between different pages. You can see that when we previewed the form previously, we were able to go to the next page only when the questions on the first page were answered:
default navigation
If you want your users to be able to look at all the pages of the form without having to fill in the answers, then you can turn off the required toggle button for each question present in the form.
Note that in order to make this work, you need to do this before you start adding the questions.
settings
Go to the questions default drop-down present at the very bottom of the page under the defaults section.
question defaults
turn toggle off
Now, the respondents will be able to go through all the questions without first having to fill in answers. Note that in case you have already added the questions, then you will have to turn off the required by-default toggle for each question:
turn off the toggle individually
Further, you can set the navigation between different sections as desired by following these steps:
down arrow
navigation option
If you want to take the user to a specific page of a Google Form depending on the answer they have added for a particular question, then you can do so as follows:
Go to the desired question in the desired section and click on the three dots present to the right of the question pane.
three dots
go to section
Go over to the option where you would like to add the logic and click on the drop-down present in front of it.
drop-down
select from menu
Now when someone selects this particular option and clicks next, they will be taken to the specified section/page instead of the usual sequence of pages. This is essentially how you can add logic questions in Google Forms.
In this post, we learned how we can create a Google Form with multiple pages. We also saw how we can work with pages and change their navigation and order. We further discussed how we can merge two sections into a single page. You can add any kind of questions in a section in Google Forms. You can further add audio and logos on a specific page of a Google form. Moreover, you can provide titles and sub-titles to each page of your Google Form thus, making it really interactive for the respondents.
Creating a Google Form with multiple pages is quite easy. Just begin by making a basic form that acts as the first page and then go over to the Add section option when you want to insert another page.
Go to the question where you want to add the Conditional branching and click on the three dots present in the side. Then, select the go to section based on answer option. Choose the relevant option from the drop-down.
Yes, you can do so by going to the settings -> Presentation Drop-down -> Toggle shuffle question order option on.
