The Scenario
You're the lead on a research team that's been running a 40-question survey for six months. Someone senior has decided to redesign the form. Before a single question changes, you need a documented snapshot of the current state — every item's question text, question type, required flag, and answer options — in an Excel workbook. That snapshot is the before-state record.
This wasn't in today's plan. It surfaced in the 2 PM all-hands and you have two hours before the design session starts.
The bad version:
- Open the form in the editor and start reading each question, typing the text, type, and options into the workbook row by row.
- Get to question 22 and realize you've been guessing at the required flag instead of checking each question individually.
- Hit a matrix grid question with 12 sub-rows and start transcribing each one manually.
Forty questions. Some with five options. Some with sub-rows. The design session is not waiting for you.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the workbook and talks directly to Google Forms to fetch the full structure of any form — every question, every option, every flag — without you transcribing anything.
Read the structure of Google Form ID in cell A1 of this Excel sheet and export each question's title, type, required flag, and response options into separate columns
What You Get
- One row per question.
- Column A: question text.
- Column B: question type.
- Column C: required flag (true/false).
- Column D: answer options as a comma-separated list, or blank for open-ended questions.
- Row 1 is the header row.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The form has matrix grid questions and I need each sub-row documented separately
Read the structure of my Google Form and for any matrix grid question, write each sub-row as its own row in this workbook with the parent question text in column A, the sub-row label in column B, the column options in column C, and the required flag in column D
I need form item IDs included for future bulk updates
Read the structure of my Google Form and write each item's form item ID in column A, question text in column B, question type in column C, required flag in column D, and answer options in column E
I need to compare two forms side by side in separate worksheets
Fetch the structure of Google Form ID [form1-id] and write it to the Form1 sheet, then fetch the structure of Google Form ID [form2-id] and write it to the Form2 sheet, using the same column layout for both
Full structural audit with a validation flag for incomplete multiple-choice questions
Read the full structure of my Google Form, write each item's question text, type, required flag, and answer options as a row in this workbook, and in column F write "missing options" for any multiple-choice or checkbox question with fewer than 2 answer options
Structure capture and validation in one pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a blank workbook, then ask it to fetch the full question structure of your Google Form with types, flags, and options in one prompt. For related tasks, see bulk update form questions from a workbook or the Google Forms overview.