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title: Customizing survey’s progress bar
description: Visually indicate the respondent's survey progress and enable additional survey navigation. 
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# Customizing survey’s progress bar

## Visually indicate the respondent's survey progress and enable additional survey navigation.

🏠 **Where it lives**

- Click on any survey question in the **Survey Editor** to customize your survey's progress bar.
- Then, click on either one of the drop down menus to customize your survey's progress bar further.

There are two settings:

- [Percentage](https://help.segmanta.com/customizing-your-surveys-progress-bar#percentage)
- [Layout](https://help.segmanta.com/customizing-your-surveys-progress-bar#layout)

### **Percentage**

🔨 **What it does**

- Displays your survey's progress bar in a **Percentage** or **Absolute** **numbers** format.

**Percentage**

![percentage](https://help.segmanta.com/hs-fs/hubfs/percentage.png?width=688&height=202&name=percentage.png)

**Absolute numbers**  
![absolute](https://help.segmanta.com/hs-fs/hubfs/absolute.png?width=688&height=199&name=absolute.png)

### Layout

#### **Back button**

🔨 **What it does**

- Allows respondents to return to the previous survey question during the survey.
  
  ![back](https://help.segmanta.com/hs-fs/hubfs/back.png?width=655&height=60&name=back.png)

### **Display progress**

🔨 **What it does**

- Allows respondents to view their progress during the survey by showing the numerical representation of the survey progress.
- If you choose to disable this setting, the numerical representation will not be visible to respondents.
  
  ![number](https://help.segmanta.com/hs-fs/hubfs/number.png?width=655&height=61&name=number.png)

### **Progress bar title**

🔨 **What it does**

- Hides the progress bar title from the respondent.
  
  ![caption](https://help.segmanta.com/hs-fs/hubfs/caption.png?width=655&height=61&name=caption.png)

**Pro-tip**: Every question element on a survey that is editable can be easily identified by hovering over it. The hover function allows you to explore additional settings, like Field options – which you can choose to require or not.

 

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