How To Duplicate Google Forms

Creating and managing surveys, questionnaires, or quizzes through Google Forms is an essential tool for many businesses and educators. However, there may come a time when you need to duplicate a Google Form, either to preserve the original while making edits or to use it as a template for future forms.

Here, we’ll explore how to duplicate Google Forms for the same purpose.

Here are different methods you can use to duplicate Google Forms, each suitable for various scenarios depending on your needs:

Step 1: Open the Google Form

Open the Google form that you want to duplicate. Here I opened the form named GFG.

Step 2: Click on the More (three dots) Icon

Go to More by clicking the three dots in the right-hand corner.
 

Step 3: Choose Make a copy

Select the option “Make a copy” to make a copy of the Form.
 

Step 4: Make Settings for Duplicate Form and Click on Make a Copy

Now name the file that you want. Here I am writing a Copy of GFG. You can also select the location where you want to save that duplicate form. Here I selected Google Drive.

Your duplicated form will be saved in the location where you saved it. And automatically, after clicking on Make a Copy, your duplicate form will be opened.

Step 1: Select a Form from the File

Go to Google Drive. You can open this directly through Google apps or you can use the link to open the Google Drive https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive. 
 

Step 2: Click on the More (three dots) Icon

After finding the form, click the three dots present at the top of the form. After this, you get the options that are mentioned in the below image. After that click on Make a copy, your duplicated copy can be seen in Google Drive.
 

Step 3: Click on Make a Copy

Select Make a copy, You can also use Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl + C, Ctrl +V)
 

Step 4: Preview the Duplicate Form

Automatically your form will be duplicated and saved in your Google Drive by the name of “Copy of ‘Name of the file’”. Here the file was named w3wiki, so, the duplicated file will be named as the copy of w3wiki. 
 

Pabbly Form Builder offers a powerful form cloning feature that can save you time and effort when creating multiple forms with similar content.

Reasons to try form cloning using Pabbly Form Builder:

• Save Time and Effort: Copy existing forms to reuse familiar elements such as questions and layouts, eliminating the need to rebuild from the ground up.
• Maintain Consistency: Cloning ensures uniformity in design and user experience, enhancing brand recognition.
• Adapt to Changing Needs: Easily update and modify cloned forms to meet evolving requirements without starting anew.
• Reduce Mistakes: Work from a proven template to minimize errors compared to creating new forms from scratch.

Step 1: Open the Pabbly form builder.

Step 2: Go to Products

Where you will find multiple options including Pabbly Connect, email marketing, form builder, email verification, and subscription billing.

Step 3: Select Pabbly form builder

Step 4: Click on Sign up free

You can sign up here for free to build your form.

Step 5: Create an account by clicking on Sign up with Google Account

You can create your account by Sign up with your Google account or mentioning all the details that are asking the Pabbly form builder. 
 

Step 6: Go to Pabbly form builder

To create the forms, you need to click on the Pabbly form builder.
 

Step 7: Click on Create form

By this, you can create the form which you want to duplicate.

Step 8: Create your form

Mention all the details i.e. questions and answers in the forms.
 

Step 9: Go to the dashboard on the top left corner

Go to the Dashboard to see if your form there or not.

Step 10: Go to the form you created then click on the three dots on the right side of the form.

Step 11: Select Clone

Click on “Clone“, so that you can duplicate your form.
 

Step 12: Confirm Cloning Action 
 

Now your duplicated form will be saved on your dashboard.

Note: (**After taking a subscription only you are able to do so. **)

In conclusion, learning how to duplicate Google Forms can make your work much easier and more consistent. We have learned to duplicate Google Forms through Google Drive, via the Pabbly Form Builder and even directly from Google Forms. You can follow these methods and steps to efficiently duplicate any Google Form.

How to install form duplicates in Google Forms?

To install form duplicates in Google Forms:

• Step 1: Open the google forms.
• Step 2: Select the option by clicking on the three dots present on the right side.
• Step 3: Select get add-ons.
• Step 4: Search for form duplicates in Google Workspace marketplace.
• Step 5: Open Form duplicates and Click on install.
• Step 6: Click on allow.
• Step 7: Click on done.

Add-on is added in you Google forms.

Can Google Forms be duplicated? If so, how?

Yes, Google forms can be duplicated, and it can be done in three ways:

1. Through google form feature, you can easily duplicate the forms.
2. Through google drive, you can easily duplicate the forms.
3. Through the Pabbly form builder, but in this you need subscription of it.

How to remove duplicate Google forms?

To remove duplicate Google Forms:

• Step 1: Open google forms.
• Step 2: Select the form you need to delete.
• Step 3: Click on three dots present on the right side of the form.
• Step 4: Choose remove.
• Step 5: Click on move to trash.

Duplicated form will be deleted after that.