How to Change the Background of Google Form – Easy Guide

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Key Takeaways: How to Change the Background of Google Form

To Change the Background of Google Form

  1. Access Google Forms.
  2. Create or Edit a Form.
  3. Preview Current Background.
  4. Customize the Theme.
  5. Modify Form Colors.
  6. Change Background.
  7. Preview the Form.

Google Form provides a wide range of services for taking surveys, questionnaires and forms. Its users need not to contact 3rd party tools for the making or conducting of their forms and surveys, rather they can only share the link of the form with their desired audience to share the surveys. Google Forms also provide the ways to maintain the appearance of the form according to user needs and requirements.

For example, if a company needs to conduct a survey, would it not be better to conduct the survey using the color combination of the company logo or designs to provide a professional look to users? This way, a better customization for the surveys can be provided. In this article, we will discuss how to change the background of the Google Form to make it look more appealing to the eyes.

Why do we change the background in Google Form?

Google Forms is a very big source to gather information from our desired public. Background with a different color may make our Google Form look more attractive to the respondents. Companies may also need to change the background to suit their company logo colors. This way, a more professional look can be achieved.

In the same way, a logo or image  can also be inserted to the header of the form to make it look more professional and customized. We have discussed the image in earlier articles. Let us focus on how to change the background of the Google Form in this article.

How to Change Background in Google Form?

We will first create a Google Form to demonstrate how to change background. Let us demonstrate how to change background below:

Create a Google Form

Let us create a new Google Form to demonstrate how to change background. Follow the steps below for making a new Google Form.

Step 1: Go to “Google Forms” website.
Click here to go to Google Forms website
By clicking on the above link, you can go to Google Forms website.
Step 2: Click on “Go to forms”.
There are two buttons. You can click either of the two.

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Step 3: Choose a template.

There are multiple templates of forms already available on the Google Forms website that you can use.

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We have demonstrated the use of templates in our article How to use templates for Google Forms.
If you want to create a Google Form from scratch, click on the “blank” template. It will make a new blank Google Form allowing complete customization.

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Here is a blank Google Form. You can label your form name and add some description to your form as per your requirements.

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Preview the Form to check the Background

Now that we are done with creating a Google Form, we will add things to the form as per our requirements.  Let’s go ahead and see how to change the background below:

Step 1: Preview the background.
Before we change the background, let’s see how the current background of our form looks. Preview can be viewed by the preview button (“Eye” button) as marked below:

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This is how the current background color looks.

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Now, we are going to change it. 

Customize Theme of  Google Forms


There is a “Customize Theme” button. We can customize the theme of our Google Form and change the background using it. Click on “Customize Theme” button as below:

how to change background of google form 7Side-bar theme menu will show up as:

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There are lots of things that we can change here including Text style, Header, colors, background etc.
There are different categories in this menu. Let’s dig into it.
First section is, “Text Style”.
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In this section, you can change fonts and font size of the Header, Question, and text boxes.
Next section is “Header”.

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Here, you can add a header image. We have added an image on our form already so let’s leave it at that.
Next section is “Color”. In this section, you can change color and background color as well.

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Before we change the background, let me show you where the color is.
If you noticed in the above screenshot, color is ticked on “Brown” as shown below the header as well.

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Change Color of the Google Form

The brown color is shown below. Now let’s change the color. Just click on your desired color.
Now when we change the  color to lighter brown shade, we can observe the change in our form as below:

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Now, we will move on to changing the background color finally.

Change background of the Google Form

Just below the color section, there is a smaller heading “Background”. That’s where we can change the background color of the form.
Just click on your desired color from the given options.

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Notice that the options here are limited. Background options are very limited to 4 different shades however if we change the color, background shades available to us will also be changed.
Let’s change color again to demonstrate how the background color shades options change.
Let’s add a custom color. Click on “+” on the color section to add a custom color. Please keep note of the background shades that are available now.

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When you click the “+” button, there is a color picker shown. You can use that color picker to pick the color of your choice or simply use Hex code.

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I am going to use “Hex code”. Hex code that I am using is “#00ff99” as shown below:

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That’s the HEX code for nice green shade as you can see in the screenshot attached. Click on “Add”:

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Now as you noticed, after clicking on “Add” not just the color of our Google Form has changed but also the background shades options have now changed and looks closer to the color that we used.

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Now let’s see a preview to see how it will look to our respondents.

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That’s how the color and background colors look now. 

We can change it as per requirements whenever required. The best approach is to use the same colors as the company logo or designs to make the related Google Form look more appealing. Also, a nice header with a logo or company design makes the Google Form look professional.

Notes

  • You need to have access rights over the Google Form to change its customizations and appearances.
  • Google Form backgrounds and colors may be changed as per user requirements as many times as required.
  • Background color options are dependent on the theme color of the Google Form. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Who can change the background of Google Form?

Users with authorization access over the Google Form holds the right to change customizations or background color of Google Form.

Is there a specific set of colors to choose from when selecting Google Form’s background color?

Yes, background color shades options appear according to the color chosen for Google Form in its theme.

Conclusion

In this article, we discussed the themes and customization options of Google Forms. We also discussed how we can change the theme color as well as background color of Google Form.  To do that, we discussed the following in detail:

  • Create a Google Form
  • Preview the Form to check the Background
  • Customize Theme of  Google Forms
  • Change Color of the Google Form
  • Modify background color of the Google Form

Thanks for reading!

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Widad Khan

Hi, I am Widad Khan. I was born and raised in Pakistan. I have always loved the field of Computer Sciences and since I was a kid, I would say I wanna grow up to be a scientist, now this term is mostly related to "Computer Scientist" and not scientist alone. I am pursuing my Bachelor Degree in Computer Sciences from GCU, Lahore. I have always loved keeping records of different types of data. Earlier, I would use MS Excel for that. But with the advancements in Google Sheets, my work has become much easier. And also it's very easy to share and coordinate data with fellows and coordinates.

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