Google-forms – How to save users’ responses in Google Form survey as they continue from page to page

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I have a long form for users to answer survey questions with about 20 pages. It's long enough that users may want to stop and finish the survey later, or they may abandon the survey altogether half way through. How can I:

cause the answers on each page to be saved to a spreadsheet when the user clicks the continue button to move to the next page?

OR

Add the option for the user to save their responses and complete the survey later?

Best Answer

Google doesn't currently support this feature - there is no way to save a form and have a user return to it later without submitting it.

That does raise an interesting point, though. You can have the user submit the survey and edit their responses later. Instead of forcing the user to page through the rest of the survey to get to the submit button, just add a multiple choice question at the bottom of each survey page (see example below): multiple choice survey exit By using question logic, we can send survey-takers to the "Submit form" page which then gives them an "Edit this form" link that they'll need to save. Of course, when they come back, they will be starting from the beginning of the survey, but their previous answers will remain filled in.

If this all seems complicated (it is), you may want to try one of the paid survey services (I found SurveyMonkey to be a good value for the money, at least a few years ago), which make implementing this much easier (see SurveyMonkey info here).