How to Copy a Google Form

Copying a Google form can be convenient if they have similar questions or you want to replicate their format.

While copies of a Google form are quick to make, you must either be a collaborator or have editorial access to the existing form.

If you don’t, there’s no easy way to copy the form short of opening it side-by-side on a different tab with the form you’re currently working on.

Copying Someone Else’s Form

If you are neither the owner nor a collaborator of the form you want to copy, follow these steps:

1. Open the form you wish to copy in Google Forms.
2. You will see the option Request Edit Access in the bottom right corner. Click on it to request editorial rights from the owner of the form.

   

3. An email will notify you whether your request is accepted or not. Unfortunately, if the owner does not grant you access, you cannot proceed.

   

4. If the owner grants you access, return to the form. There will be an Edit icon on the bottom right. Click on it to go into the editing interface.

   

5. To make a copy of the form. Click on the three-dot menu in the top right corner of the form.

   

6. Select the Make a copy from the menu. Select make a copy.
7. Write a title for the new form in the window that pops up.

   

8. You can also choose the location you want your new form saved to in Google Drive.

   

9. Finally, you can choose if you want to share the copy with the same collaborators or not.

   

10. Finally, select Make a copy, and your copy of the form will be created!

    

Duplicating a form you already own or have editorial access to

1. Open the form you want to duplicate.

   

2. Click on the three-dots menu on the top right.

   

3. Select Make a copy.

   

4. In the window that appears, type the title of the copied document.

   

5. You can choose where you want to save the new copy.

   

6. Finally, click on Make a copy. The Google Form is now duplicated!