Building questions happens more quickly with Automated Choice Statements, Automatic Scale Points, and editing multiple questions with applications such as Microsoft Word.

In this article:

• Automatic Choices
• Automatic Scale Points
• Search and Replace
• Edit Multiple 

Automatic Choices

Qualtrics has automatic choice statements that can help build questions.

When creating questions:

1. Select Automatic Statements.
2. Select an option from the list of satisfaction scales, frequency scales, and likeability scales. Choices vary with each question type.
3. Use the Plus or Minus signs to adjust the number of Scale Points. Scale points adapt to your selection.
4. Edit the text if needed.

Automatic Scale Points

Qualtrics will discern which scale you may need and automatically fill in your choice list. Disable this by clearing the Automatic Choices checkbox for the question, or click the dropdown to select a different choice list.

Search and Replace

To change words throughout a survey, use Search and Replace found in the Toolsdropdown under Review.

Edit Multiple

If you’ve written questions in a text editor like Word, use Edit Multiple to transfer your answer choice text.

You can also use Edit Multiple to delete or rearrange your answer choices by highlighting, copying, and pasting choices in the Edit Multiple box.

To use edit multiple:

1. Copy the list of choices from Microsoft Word or other documents.
2. Click Edit Multiple in the Editing Pane. 
3. Paste your list into the Edit Multiple box. (Qualtrics will populate the answer choices with your uploaded content.)

For question types (like Matrix Table and Side by Side) use Edit Multiple to copy and paste statements, scale points, and columns.

Note: Edit Multiple will be disabled as soon as you collect your first response to ensure your data isn’t invalidated.