Using Chapters and Sections

Chapters and Sections are very useful for giving 'shape' to your questionnaire. They can be visible to the respondent or invisible.

If they are visible they comprise a heading (rendered in bold type) and can have a page of text as well. Used like this you can add extra text or graphics to your questions for added 'punch'.

Chapters and Sections, together with the Questions themselves, form a hierarchy.

Chapters contain Sections.

Sections contain Questions.

Both Chapters and Sections are optional. But, if you do use them, then that is the hierarchy order.

You can use them for making the logic flow easier too. For example, if someone answers 'Yes' to a question you may want them to miss the next three questions as they only apply to a 'No' response. Enclosing them in a Section allows you to skip the whole section.

Also, you can add a new question into the section without having to edit your logic commands.

Very neat and tidy. Once you have used sections you will be looking out to use them to structure your thoughts as well as the questionnaire.

The procedure for editing them is identical to that for the Introduction page.

Now we know how to put structure into our questionnaire time to move onto the meat of the matter - building the questions.