Edit your form

After you've created a form, you can add and edit questions and other content. To organize your form by topic, you can add sections.

Add questions, headers & sections

Add a question
  1. In Google Forms, open a form.
  2. Click Add Add.
  3. To the right of the question title, choose the type of question you want.
  4. Type the possible responses to your question. To prevent people from not answering, turn on Required.
Add image or video

Add an image or video to a question or answer

You can add an image to a question or an answer for multiple choice or checkbox questions.

  1. In Google Forms, open a form.
  2. Click a question or answer.
  3. To the right, click Add image Insert image.
  4. Upload or choose an image.
  5. Click Select.

Add an image or video on its own

You can add an image or YouTube video to your form. You can’t add videos to questions, but you can place them before or after a question.

  1. In Google Forms, open a form.
  2. To add an image, click Add image Insert image. To add a video, click Add Video Video.
  3. Choose your image or video and click Select.
Add a section

Sections can make your form easier to read and complete.

  1. In Google Forms, open a form.
  2. Click Add Section Section.
  3. Name the new section.
Duplicate a question, image, or section

Questions or images

  1. Click a question or image.
  2. Click Duplicate Copy.

Sections

  1. Click a section header.
  2. Click More More.
  3. Click Duplicate section.

Delete or edit items

To edit a question, header, or description, click the text you want to change.

Delete a question, image, or section

Questions or images

  1. Click a question or image.
  2. Click Delete Trash.

Section

  1. Click a section header.
  2. Click More More.
  3. Click Delete section.
Reorder a section

If you have more than one section, you can change the order.

  1. At the top right of any section, click More More.
  2. Click Move section.
  3. To move a section, click Up Up arrow or Down Down Arrow.
Undo an action

If you want to undo a recent change:

  1. At the top right of your form, click More More.
  2. Click Undo Undo.

Randomly order questions and answers

You can have questions and answers appear in a different order for everyone who fills out your form.

Note: Questions and answers will only be shuffled once per email address. Make sure each address is entered separately and not sent to a Google Group.

Shuffle question order

If your questions are in a specific order, you shouldn’t shuffle your questions.

  1. At the top, click Settings Settings.
  2. Click PRESENTATION.
  3. Click Shuffle question order.
Shuffle answer choices

You can shuffle answers to multiple choice, checkbox, and drop-down questions.

  1. Click the question you want to shuffle answers for.
  2. In the bottom right, click More More.
  3. Click Shuffle option order.

Change your default settings

To make every new form use the same settings:

  1. In Google Forms, open a form.
  2. At the top, click More More and then Preferences.
  3. Any setting you turn on will be the default for any new form.

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