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option to disable numbering questions

option to disable numbering questions

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  • Hannah-Jane commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed, particularly as at present you cannot add a Comments section under a multiple choice question.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please fix this issue as many questionnaires require a commentary box under the ranking for each question for users to post additional information.

  • Kifner commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please don't sleep on this suggestion. When you start a form, you always ask for the responder's details first before the actual survey/questions. So you don't need numbers in this section.

  • Tariq Wali commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    These is no need to have serial numbers for all the options we add in the form. Please look at this problem to add or remove the numbers from the options.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This prevents us from being able to use this tool. MS should take this request seriously. It is ridiculous that we can’t disable numbering on the questions.

  • Sinead commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, please allow the option to remove the numbering, it adds confusion

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Give an option NOT to number the items.
    Automatically disable numbering if there is only 1 question

  • Greg Newton commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am trying to create a set of questions, and each question contains a number. Having a number at the start of the question adds confusion.

    e.g.:
    2. Item 1 Value:
    3. Item 2 Value:
    4. Item 3 Value:

    It would be useful if the question number on the left could be removed.

    Google forms doesn't show the number, and it looks way better. I may stick with Google forms, especially as this suggestion was raised on this forum 2 years ago and Microsoft have just ignored it.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I want to be able to remove the numbering so that I can add instructional text. At the moment I am doing this using the 'Add Section', however if I could remove the numbering from the question, I could do it better here.

  • sid commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    i have questions that are "name 3 things", each with text answer. This means the user gets 2 sets of numbers for each of these answers.

  • Torrin Miller commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Completely agree, either allow creators of the forms to disable number sequence. And/Or if there is only one question, don't display a number.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, very useful when you are using the form to log replies to a paper survey with fixed numbering (which can't be changed as it's a government-mandated structure).

  • John commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Or at least only add numbers automatically when the form has more than one question.

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