Editing Questions

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In the survey editor there are several tools that will help you to achieve the look and function you want. When you click on a question, it will turn light blue. This highlighting will help you to see which question you are editing.

To edit question text just click on the question text area and start typing. To edit answer choices do the same thing, click on an answer choice and start typing.

Contents 1 Question Type 2 Rich Text Editor 2.1 Pipe Smart Text (Piped Text) 2.2 Hyperlink 2.3 Source Code 3 Question Labels 4 Editing Answer Choices 5 Format Answer Choice Text 6 Make Answer Exclusive

Question Type

This green box is located to the right side of your question and will allow you to set a certain type for your question. Once you click on the box it will display the twelve default question styles. If your desired question type is not displayed click on the blue "Show All Question Types" link at the bottom of the box. For more information about question types that are available click here.

Rich Text Editor

For advanced text editing options click on the Rich Text Editor button shown above. This button only appears while editing question text.

At the top of the rich text editor are the options shown below.

Pipe Smart Text (Piped Text)

The "a" with red brackets is the piped text button. This feature will allow you to pipe in text from:

• a prior answer choice
• text entered into a text filed
• embedded data from a panel

Just click on the button and use the drop downs to tell the system from where to pull the piped text.

Once you have inserted the piped text it will insert a code that looks like this, ${q://QID12/QuestionText} . You can cut and paste this code, putting it wherever you need to bring in the piped text.

Hyperlink

1. Adding a hyperlink can be done by using the Insert/Edit Link icon (chainlink) on the rich text editor toolbar.
2. A new window will appear.
3. Copy and paste the URL into the URL text box
   • If needed, change the Protocol dropdown to "http" or "https", etc. to match the URL pasted into the text box.
4. Now go to the Target tab.
5. Click the Target dropdown and select "New Window (_blank)".
   • Selecting "New Window (_blank)" will make it so the link opens in a new window, rather than in place of the survey.
   • There are other options available, such as "<popup window>", which can provide more popup options/abilities.

You can edit also use the Code View of the question text (or answer choice text box) and insert HTML to create your hyperlink. Below is an example.
<a href="http://www.qualtrics.com" target="_blank">Qualtrics homepage</a>
You would just need to replace "http://www.qualtrics.com" with the correct site and replace "Qualtrics homepage" with the text you want to be the hyperlink.

Source Code

To edit the source code or add code (html, java script, CSS) to the question, just click on the "Source" button in the rich text editor.

You can also use the "Code View" button when in the regular Edit Question view to work with the source/code within the question text.

Question Labels

Labels are especially useful when you have a question using a large amount of text, as that text can sometimes be difficult to use. The idea of the label is to shorten the text, or "label" of the question, so it is more usable with Qualtrics, as well as other tools, like Excel and SPSS. When you change the label of a question, the label is used in Qualtrics when setting up Skip and Branch Logic, Quotas and Triggers, and the questions column in a report in view results. The label is also exported by default when you export data. So the header of the question's column in Excel, will display the label as opposed to the full question text.

When you type text into a question text field, you will see a small icon like the one to the left at the bottom left corner of the text field.

Hovering over this icon will display the following:

When you click on "Edit Question Label", you will see a preview of your current question text, which you can edit to be the label you desire.

When you click off of the question text field, your label is saved. Your label will be available for edit anytime you click on that particular question's text field.

If you want to remove the label and go back to using the full question text, click on the "Reset Label" button at the bottom right corner of the text field.

Editing Answer Choices

You can click on an answer choice and start typing to edit.

• Pressing Enter on the keyboard will add a new choice.
• Pressing Tab on the keyboard will navigate to the next choice in line (for editing).
• TIP: If you need to enter a long list of choices...
  1. Copy that list from Word or Excel (Ctrl+C, or highlight -> right click -> Copy).
  2. Paste the list into an answer choice field for your question (Ctrl+V, or right click -> Paste).
  3. Qualtrics will be smart and recognize you are pasting a list and populate each item in the list as its own answer choice.

Format Answer Choice Text

For information on how to make specific formatting changes to answer choices, you can reference the Changing Text Styles page. This provides basic instruction on how to use HTML to make specific edits to your answer choices or individual words in the choices.

Make Answer Exclusive

aka "None of the Above" or "All of the Above" answer choices.

On multiple select questions (checkboxes) an option becomes available to specify a choice as exclusive. This means if the specified choice is selected, it will deselect any other answer choices in the question, and vice versa. This is useful when needing a "None of the Above" or All of the Above" answer choice.

To make an answer choice exclusive:

1. Click to edit the answer choice.
2. Click the blue dropdown arrow to right of answer choice.
3. Select "Make Answer Exclusive".