How does it work?

How to Install?

Option 1

  • Create new or open any of your Google Form.
  • Go to menu "Add-on" and click "Get Add-on" and search for "Form Builder".
  • Install it and start using it.


Option 2

Directly reach the add-on using this link in Google Chrome Web Store

Form Builder at Google Apps Store


Option 3

Directly reach the add-on using this link in GSuite Marketplace

Form Builder at GSuite Marketplace

HOW TO SETUP?

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In order to start Form Builder

  • Open a Form
  • Go to add-on select Form Builder
  • Click on Setup to start Form Builder
  • Select the App that you want
  • The App can be Google Form or Google Sheet

Build Form from another Google Form

Consider you have an existing Google Forms. And you want to import few or all fields/ questions from that form into another form. This section covers how to do it.

  • Select source as "Google Form"
  • After selecting Google Form you can see a Choose Form button
  • You can choose any Form to build a new Form or add new fields to the existing one.
  • After selecting the form you can see the form name appearing just below the Choose Form button.
  • You can access the selected form by clicking on the Open in New icon
  • Form Builder lists all fields and makes fields/questions available for you
  • You can import individual field by clicking on the Action button
  • You can also import the selected fields by clicking Import Selected button
  • If you want more fields from other forms, you can click on Change Form Button and do the same steps again.
  • That's it, your Form is ready.


Note: There are some types in the Form API such as VIDEO. these are unsupported types in Form Builder so you can not import these fields.

Build a Quiz Form from another Quiz Form

Consider you have an existing Quiz Forms. And you want to import few or all fields/ questions from that form into another form. This section covers how to do it.

  • Select source as "Google Form"
  • After selecting Google Form you can see a Choose Form button
  • You can choose any Form to build a new Form or add new fields to the existing one.



  • Form Builder automatically check the selected form is a quiz or not .
  • If the selected form is Quiz then it will ask a user to convert the current working form to quiz form.
  • Click on CONVERT button to convert the current working form to quiz form.
  • If you do not want to convert the current working form to quiz just click on CANCEL button.
  • You can see the selected form name appearing just below the Choose Form button.
  • You can access the selected form by clicking on the Open in New icon
  • Form Builder lists all fields and makes fields/questions available for you.
  • Quiz Fields properties are preconfigured such as points, feedback (general, correct answer and wrong answer) and URL links.
  • Choose the position where the fields need to be imported.
  • You can import individual field by clicking on the Action button
  • You can also import the selected fields by clicking Import Selected button.
  • If you want more fields from other forms, you can click on Change Form Button and do the same steps again.
  • That's it, your Quiz Form is ready.


Note: There are some types in the Form API such as VIDEO. these are unsupported types in Form Builder so you can not import these fields.

Build Form from Google Sheet

Consider you have the questions/fields for the form in a Google Sheet. And you want to build a Google Form using that data.

  • Select source as "Google Sheet"
  • After selecting Google Sheet you can see a Choose Sheet Button
  • You can choose any Sheet to build a new Form or add new fields to the existing one.
  • After selecting the sheet you can see the sheet name just below the Choose Sheet button.
  • You can access the selected sheet by clicking on the Open in New icon
  • After choosing sheet, Form Builder will list all the tab name in Choose Tab, now you need to select the one of the tab name form Choose Tab
  • There are 3 type of pattern i.e Questions, Question and Answer and Quiz
  • Below are the steps how to import from Questions, Question and Answers and Quiz


How to import from questions

  • Select the Questions pattern
  • Default range will be A2:A i.e first column of a selected tab
  • Form Builder lists all fields and makes fields available for you to import
  • You can change the range and hit GET button to refresh the list of fields/ questions
  • The default type of each question is short answer in question pattern
  • If you want to change the type you can change in two ways
  • First method is by simply selecting from drop down.
  • Second method is by clicking setting icon.
  • This is the best method to change the type or configure the question.
  • You can import individual field by clicking on the Action button
  • You can also import the selected fields by clicking Import Selected button
  • There are some types in the Form API such as VIDEO, FILE_UPLOAD. these are unsupported types in Form Builder so you can not import these fields.


Sample sheet data

  • In questions every cell in a sheet is consider as question.
  • First row to be expected as header in a sheet.
  • So the default type of every question is short answer in questions pattern.
  • By default the first column all cell will be selected excluding header . You can see in the above sample data.


How to set Configuration

Configuration example:

  • Example consider the question type is short answer and you want to change to multiple choice you can easily change its type or even its option values also can be easily change.
  • You can set options in 2 ways.
  • First method is by entering comma separated value. which is straightforward.
  • Second method is by giving range. enter the range and you will see the option below.
  • If any delimiter in a any cell check the delimiter checkbox and click save. your configuration is done.
  • If the question is fully configured then setting icon color will change.
  • Example of fully configured. Consider the question has multiple choice and its required is checked then its consider as fully configured.
  • If you want more fields, you can get it by selecting another tab or by changing the Sheet itself and do the same steps again.
  • That's it, your Form is ready.

How to Import from question and answer

  • Select the Question and Answers pattern
  • Default range will be A2:B i.e first 2 columns of a selected tab
  • Sheet must match the following pattern i.e first column contains question and second column onward expects options.
  • Below is the sample data you can see the pattern.
  • You can refer the sample data. column A contains the all the question.
  • Column B, C and D have options
  • You can also provide Delimiter for example ","
  • You can refer the sample data below.
  • You can change the range and hit GET button to refresh the list of fields/ questions
  • Form Builder lists all fields and makes fields available for you to import
  • The default type of each question is either short answer or multiple choice in question and answer pattern
  • If question has options then its type is multiple choice else short answer.



  • If you want to change the type you can change in two ways
  • First method is by simply selecting from drop down.
  • Second method is by clicking setting icon.
  • This is the best method to change the type or configure the question.
  • You can import individual field by clicking on the Action button
  • You can also import the selected fields by clicking Import Selected button
  • There are some types in the Form API such as VIDEO, FILE_UPLOAD. these are unsupported types in Form Builder so you can not import these fields.
  • If you want more fields, you can get it by selecting another tab or by changing the Sheet itself and do the same steps again.
  • That's it, your Form is ready.

Sample 1 sheet data

  • At least two column should be there in selected a sheet.
  • Sheet must match the following pattern i.e first column contains question and second column onward expects options.
  • In the above sample data column A contains the all the questions.
  • And other columns B, C and D have options.

Sample 2 sheet data

  • It is also possible that one column have all options.
  • You can see the column B have multiple value separated by comma.
  • To import this format you need to check the delimiter and provide the delimiter.
  • In this sample data delimiter is "," and default delimiter is also ",".
  • You just need to check this delimiter and enter whatever delimiter you have in your sheet. Before clicking the GET button .
  • If you did not check the delimiter or enter wrong delimiter it will make only one option.

How to set Configuration

Configuration example:

  • Example consider question type is multiple choice and you want to change to Drop down you can easily change its type or even its option values also can be easily change.
  • You can change the type either in main GUI just by selecting any type from drop down or in configuration setup drop down.
  • Using configuration is best practice. you can see the all the configuration before import.
  • If the question is fully configured then setting icon color will change.
  • Example of fully configured. Consider the question has multiple choice and its required is checked then its consider as fully configured.
  • If you want more fields, you can get it by selecting another tab or by changing the Sheet itself and do the same steps again.
  • That's it, your Form is ready.

How to Import from Quiz

  • Select the Quiz pattern
  • Default range will be A2:K
  • You just need to check delimiter and enter whatever delimiter you have in your sheet.
  • We can use delimiter only when one column has all options with a separator (example: ",").
  • Sheet must match the following pattern i.e first column contains question and second column onward expects options,points, feedback etc.
  • Below is the sample data you can see the pattern.
  • You can refer the sample data. column A contains the all the question.
  • second onward has options, correct answer, points etc.


  • Form Builder lists all fields. you just need to tell the Form Builder which column is what in sheet.
  • For example options end column. In the sample data options are end with Column E. Like this you need to configure however you needed such as points, correct answer etc.
  • If you want to set advance properties such as correct answer feedback, incorrect answer feedback, correct answer URL and incorrect answer URL.
  • Click on advance button to set these properties and select the appropriate column.
  • click on GET button to lists all fields.
  • Form Builder lists all fields and makes fields available for you to import
  • The default type of each question is either short answer or multiple choice in question and answer pattern
  • If question has options then its type is multiple choice else short answer.
  • You can change the range and hit GET button to refresh the list of fields/ questions
  • If you want to change the type you can change in two ways
  • First method is by simply selecting from drop down.
  • Second method is by clicking setting icon.
  • This is the best method to change the type or configure the question.
  • You can import individual field by clicking on the Action button
  • You can also import the selected fields by clicking Import Selected button
  • There are some types in the Form API such as VIDEO, FILE_UPLOAD. these are unsupported types in Form Builder so you can not import these fields.
  • If you want more fields, you can get it by selecting another tab or by changing the Sheet itself and do the same steps again.
  • That's it, your Quiz Form is ready.

How to set Configuration

Configuration example:

  • Example consider question type is multiple choice and you want to change to Drop down you can easily change its type or even its option values also can be easily change.
  • You can change the type either in main GUI just by selecting any type from drop down or in configuration setup drop down.
  • Using configuration is best practice. you can see the all the configuration before import.
  • If the question is fully configured then setting icon color will change.
  • Example of fully configured. Consider the question has multiple choice and its required is checked then its consider as fully configured.
  • If you want more fields, you can get it by selecting another tab or by changing the Sheet itself and do the same steps again.


Sample quiz sheet data

  • Sheet must match the above pattern i.e first column contains question and second column onward expects options,points, correct answer, feedback and URL links.
  • In the above sample data column A contains the all the questions.
  • After question it must have options.
  • Points, correct answer, feedback and URL links can be any order.
  • If you have multiple correct answers in a sheet put "," comma between correct answer.
  • If you have multiple correct URL links or incorrect URL links in sheet put "," comma between URL links.
  • "," comma is default delimiter or separator in correct answer and URL links.

Build Form from Google Docs

Consider you have the questions/fields for the form in a Google Docs. And you want to build a Google Form using that data.

  • Select source as "Google Document"
  • After selecting Google Document you can see a Choose Document Button
  • You can choose any Document to build a new Form or add new fields to the existing one.
  • After selecting the Document you can see the docs name appearing just below the Choose Document button.
  • You can access the selected Document by clicking on the Open in New icon
  • Form Builder lists all fields and makes fields/questions available for you
  • You can import individual field by clicking on the Action button
  • You can also import the selected fields by clicking Import Selected button
  • You can configure the question i.e its type, option values by clicking setting icon.

How to set Configuration

Configuration example:

  • Example if question type is multiple choice and you want to change to drop down you can easily change its type or even its option values also can be easily change.
  • If the question is fully configured then setting icon color will change.
  • Example of fully configured if the question has multiple choice and its required is checked then its consider as fully configured.
  • If you want more fields from other document, you can click on Change Document Button and do the same steps again.
  • That's it, your Form is ready.
  • Sample Document
  • Sample document has 3 question and each question have a list of bullet values
  • If a question have bullet values then form builder automatically make as questions option and its type is set to be multiple choice.
  • If the question does not have any bullet values then its type is set as short answer.

Build Form from Google Slides

Consider you have the questions/fields for the form in a Google Slides. And you want to build a Google Form using that data.

  • Select source as "Google Slide"
  • After selecting Google Document you can see a Choose Slide Button
  • You can choose any Slide to build a new Form or add new fields to the existing one.


  • After selecting the Slide you can see the slide name appearing just below the Choose Slide button.
  • You can access the selected Slide by clicking on the Open in New icon
  • Form Builder lists all fields and makes fields/questions available for you
  • You can import individual field by clicking on the Action button
  • You can also import the selected fields by clicking Import Selected button
  • You can configure the question i.e its type, option values by clicking setting icon.


  • Configuration example
  • Example if question type is multiple choice and you want to change to drop down you can easily change its type or even its option values also can change easily.
  • if the question is fully configured then setting icon color will change.
  • example if the question has multiple choice and its required is checked then its consider as fully configured.
  • If you want more fields from other document, you can click on Change Document Button and do the same steps again.
  • That's it, your Form is ready.


  • Sample Slide
  • A sample slide has 3 question and each question have a list of bullet values
  • If a question have bullet values then form builder automatically make them as questions option and its type is set to be multiple choice.
  • If the question does not have any bullet values then its type is set as short answer.

Enjoy simplified Google Form Building !