Google-forms – Customize the “other” box of a Google form

google-forms

I have a Google form and I want the "Other box" of a multiple-choice question to say something other than “Other”. For example:

Other programs:[                     ]

How to do it, if this is possible at all?

Best Answer

Google forms do not appear to offer such customizability.

But it's possible to directly modify the HTML file provided by the form, and use the modified file instead of the form. Such restyling process is described in this tutorial, and the Sneaky Sheep tool might make it easier. Here is a brief description.

Create the form
Go to Live Form
Right click the form, pick "View Source", copy-paste the entire source into a text editor.
Replace the relative link near the top

<link href='/static/forms/client/css/....

with absolute link

<link href='https://docs.google.com/static/forms/client/css/....

so that it works from any location.

Replace "Other:" with "Other programs" (searching will help locating this string).
Put the HTML form somewhere where your users can access it. If you created it from a spreadsheet, it will still submit data to that spreadsheet.

Limitations of the above approach:

Works only for single-page forms.
If multiple responses are allowed, the standard page shown on submission will have a link to original form, not to your customized version. This can be worked around: search the source for "form action" and change the URL to your custom confirmation page.

Related Solutions

Google-sheets – How to create a multiple choice question in Google Forms based on spreadsheet data

You should be able to do it with something like

// Change these three values to match your own spreadsheet
var OPTIONS_SPREADSHEET_ID = "0Avea1NXBTibYdEY4XzBvSk84MjB2RENiOFljSkVaY0E";
var OPTIONS_SHEET_NAME = "Sheet 1";
var OPTIONS_RANGE = "A1:A4"; // We have 4 options, listed in column A

// This returns a 2D array of the values of the range, e.g. [["A1value", "B1Value"], ["A2Value", "B2Value"], ["A3Value", "B3Value"]];
var options2DArr = SpreadsheetApp.openById(OPTIONS_SPREADSHEET_ID).getSheetByName(OPTIONS_SHEET_NAME).getRange(OPTIONS_RANGE).getValues();
var options = [];
for (var i = 0; i < options2DArr.length; i++) { // Now iterate through the 2D array and extract values from the first column only
  options.push(options2DArr[i][0]); // 0 is the index of the first column
}

form.addMultipleChoiceItem()
.setTitle('Do you prefer cats or dogs?')
.setChoiceValues(options) // <-- Uses the spreadsheet values as choice options
.showOtherOption(true);

Google-sheets – How to dynamically retrieve and display data based on input from google forms

Short answer

From the question

After the user submits their choice on that page of the survey, I want the next page to display text that refers to their choice.

This is not possible with the Google Apps Script Forms Service but could be done using other services.

Explanation

The Forms Service from Google Apps Script could be used to create, access, and modify Google Forms and to read and edit form responses ~~but not to control the forms UI at run time~~. Url Fetch and Html service could be used to edit the control the forms UI at run time. For further details see this recent answer from me to a similar question.