Google Forms: Hide the Timestamp

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Google Forms: Hide the Timestamp

google forms hide timestamp

Google Forms automatically collects the time stamp of every entry. This is great except when you’re actually looking at the data a lot of times the timestamp just takes up space. I usually want student name to be the first column.

Hide Timestamp

If you hover over the column indicator you will notice a dropdown arrow. Click on this to choose “Hide column.”
Hide Column

View Hidden Column

To view a column you  hid, there is an arrow between the column indicators to show a column is missing. Click on the arrow to expand the column back in place.
Expand hidden columns

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