The Scenario
A research consultant ran 5 separate client satisfaction surveys over the past quarter — one per engagement. All 5 survey IDs are in an Excel workbook. She has a cross-client analysis due to her agency director tomorrow, and it requires all 800 responses from all 5 surveys merged into one worksheet with a column identifying which survey each response came from. Right now, the data is spread across 5 separate SurveyMonkey surveys.
The bad version:
- Export responses for survey 1 as a CSV, open in Excel, add a SurveyName column, fill it in for 160 rows.
- Repeat for surveys 2 through 5 — each with slightly different question structures, so the column headers don't align.
- Try to paste all five datasets into one worksheet, realize the question columns conflict, spend an hour deciding how to handle questions that only appeared in some surveys, and end up with a table that has 40 columns and 200 blank cells per row.
The analysis is due tomorrow morning. The merge work is not the analysis — it is the setup for the analysis. Burning the evening on it means the insights won't get the time they need.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the survey IDs from the workbook, fetches all responses for each one, and writes them into a single master worksheet — handling the column alignment automatically.
Read the 'Survey IDs' Excel table and for each ID pull all SurveyMonkey responses, appending them to the 'Master Responses' sheet with a SurveyID column at the start. Use question text as column headers, not question IDs.
What You Get
- A 'Master Responses' worksheet with all responses from all surveys combined.
- SurveyID as the first column on every row, identifying which survey the respondent came from.
- Question text used as column headers — columns appear once, with blank cells for questions not present in a given survey.
- Rows appended in survey order, one respondent per row.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want the source survey title instead of the survey ID in the first column
For each survey ID in column A of the 'Survey IDs' worksheet, fetch the survey title from SurveyMonkey and use it as the value in a SurveyTitle column when appending responses to 'Master Responses'. Use question text as column headers.
You only want completed responses, not partial submissions
For each survey ID in the 'Survey IDs' table, fetch only SurveyMonkey responses with completion status = complete. Append to 'Master Responses' with a SurveyTitle column. After all surveys are processed, write total response count per survey to a 'Source Summary' worksheet.
You want a fill rate row at the bottom showing coverage per question
For each survey ID in the 'Survey IDs' table, fetch all responses and append to 'Master Responses' with a SurveyTitle column and question text headers. After the last row, add a FILL RATE row showing the percentage of non-blank values in each question column, so you can see which questions were asked across all surveys versus only some.
You need the full merge with completion filter, source titles, fill rate, per-survey summary, and date range — all in one pass
For each survey ID in the 'Survey IDs' table, fetch only completed SurveyMonkey responses submitted after 2026-01-01. Append to 'Master Responses' with SurveyTitle as the first column and date submitted as the second. Add a FILL RATE row at the bottom of 'Master Responses'. Write a 'Survey Summary' worksheet with survey title, total responses, and date range (earliest to latest) per survey.
One instruction handles the multi-survey pull, the filter, the title resolution, the fill rate row, and the summary worksheet.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook with your survey IDs, then ask it to pull all responses and merge them into a single master worksheet with a source column. For pulling responses from a single survey, see the spoke on bulk-exporting survey responses. For the full SurveyMonkey overview, see the hub page.