Microsoft Forms is a great tool for creating free, easy-to-use surveys, polls, quizzes, and questionnaires. It includes branching, which allows you to send users to different questions depending on their previous answers. Here’s how to add branching to your form.

Microsoft Forms是用于创建免费，易于使用的调查，民意测验，测验和调查表的出色工具。 它包括分支，它使您可以根据用户先前的答案将其发送给其他问题。 这是向表单添加分支的方法。

To use Microsoft Forms, you’ll need a free Microsoft account (or a paid Office 365 account). Once you’re logged in, go to to start. If you haven’t used Forms before, we have a to using it. Take a quick look through that because you’ll need to know how to add questions before you can add branching.

要使用Microsoft Forms，您需要一个免费的Microsoft帐户(或付费的Office 365帐户)。 登录后，进入 。 如果您以前从未使用过Forms，我们将提供使用它的 。 快速浏览一下，因为您需要知道如何添加问题，然后才能添加分支。

If you’ve never used branching before, it’s quite a simple concept: The next question a user will see depends on what answer they give to the previous question. So if your form asks a question with a choice of answers, A or B, branching will send the user to one question if they answer “A,” and another question if they answer “B.”

如果您以前从未使用过分支，则它是一个非常简单的概念：用户将看到的下一个问题取决于他们对上一个问题的回答。 因此，如果您的表单问一个带有选择答案的问题A或B，则分支将使用户在回答“ A”时遇到一个问题，而在回答“ B”时又遇到另一个问题。

Let’s look at an example. We’ll create a simple survey, where we want to know people’s favorite sport and their favorite player in that sport. The first question will be, “What is your favorite sport?” and we’ll provide three options:

让我们来看一个例子。 我们将创建一个简单的调查，在其中我们想知道人们最喜欢的运动以及他们最喜欢的运动员。 第一个问题是：“您最喜欢的运动是什么？” 我们将提供三个选项：

1. Baseball
   棒球
2. Basketball
   篮球
3. Football
   足球

If they choose “Baseball,” we’ll branch off to the question, “Who is your favorite baseball player?” If they choose “Basketball,” we’ll branch off to the question, “Who is your favorite basketball player?” and so on.

如果他们选择“棒球”，我们将转到“谁是您最喜欢的棒球选手？”这个问题。 如果他们选择“篮球”，我们将转到“谁是您最喜欢的篮球运动员？”这个问题。 等等。

Here’s how this works in practice. In Forms, click the “New Form” button to start.

这是实际的工作方式。 在表单中，单击“新建表单”按钮以启动。

This opens a blank form. Click “Untitled Form” and then type in a name for your survey

这将打开一个空白表格。 点击“无标题表格”，然后输入调查的名称

Now, click the “Add New” button to add a new question.

现在，单击“添加新”按钮以添加新问题。

Branching works most effectively with “Choice” questions, so select that option.

分支对于“选择”问题最有效，因此选择该选项。

We now need to add a question and answer choices.

现在，我们需要添加一个问题和答案选择。

Before we can add branching, we need to add the different questions that users will see depending on their answers. We’ll add three more questions, one each for the three choices we gave the user.

在添加分支之前，我们需要添加用户将根据其答案看到的不同问题。 我们将再添加三个问题，对于我们给用户的三个选择，每个问题一个。

The questions should be simple text questions. Our complete survey looks like this:

这些问题应该是简单的文本问题。 我们完整的调查如下所示：

Now, we can add branching. Click the three-dot menu button in the top-right corner and then select “Branching” from the menu.

现在，我们可以添加分支。 单击右上角的三点菜单按钮，然后从菜单中选择“分支”。

The form will now display the branching options for your choice question.

现在，该表格将显示您选择问题的分支选项。

Click the dropdown to select which question you want the user to see for each answer they select.

单击下拉列表，选择您希望用户针对他们选择的每个答案看到的问题。

Choose the appropriate question for each choice.

为每个选择选择适当的问题。

We need to make sure users see only the questions we want them to see, which means hiding the other questions. So if someone selects “Baseball,” we want them to see the “Who is your favorite baseball player?” question and no others.

我们需要确保用户仅看到我们希望他们看到的问题，这意味着隐藏其他问题。 因此，如果有人选择“棒球”，我们希望他们看到“谁是您最喜欢的棒球运动员？” 问题，没有其他。

Select the second question, and in the branching dropdown, choose “End of the Form.”

选择第二个问题，然后在分支下拉列表中，选择“表单结尾”。

Select the third and fourth questions and do the same thing.

选择第三个和第四个问题，然后执行相同的操作。

When you’ve finished making your choices, click “Back” to change from the branching view to the normal design view.

完成选择后，单击“上一步”以从分支视图更改为普通设计视图。

The form will look exactly as it did before, but with a branching symbol to show you’ve added branching rules.

该表单看起来与以前完全一样，但是带有一个分支符号以显示您已经添加了分支规则。

To see the branching in action, click the “Preview” button in the top right of the form.

要查看正在运行的分支，请单击表单右上方的“预览”按钮。

When you choose an option from the first question, the second question will change to match.

当您从第一个问题中选择一个选项时，第二个问题将更改为匹配。

You can use branching on any type of question to send people to the next question, a specific question, or to the end of the form. In our example, we could have added branching that sent people to the end of the form if they chose a favorite baseball or basketball player, but sent them to extra questions if they chose a favorite football player.

您可以在任何类型的问题上使用分支，以将人们带到下一个问题，特定问题或表格的末尾。 在我们的示例中，我们可以添加分支，如果人们选择了最喜欢的棒球或篮球运动员，则将其发送到表单的末尾，但是如果他们选择了最喜欢的足球运动员，则将其发送至其他问题。

Although it’s quite simple to use, branching lets you create complex forms easily and quickly. If you use Forms at all frequently, it’ll become an indispensable tool in no time.

尽管使用起来非常简单，但是分支使您可以轻松快速地创建复杂的表单。 如果您经常使用Forms，它将立即成为必不可少的工具。

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