# Respondents

A respondent is anyone who has filled one of your survey forms. The respondents section allows you to view and manage all the respondents with their answers using one single grid. 

Each column in the grid represents the respondent answer to the question, text based answers like fields will are rendered in separate columns, one per text based answer. 

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1. Respondent grid actions to search through your respondents, filter or change the grid layout.
2. Filter out the respondent by their [response status](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/respondents-management/response-status).
3. Reload the grid with the most current respondents data.
4. View the [respondent and its answers](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/respondents-management/respondent-details) and let you [edit](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/respondents-management/editing-respondent-answers) his answers. 

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🧙 You may sort the respondents by clicking on the grid column's header label. 
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## 🚀 Respondent grid actions

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* **`Delete completed respondents`** Deletes all the completed respondents. This operation cannot be reversed.
* **`Archive respondents`** set all respondents status to [archived](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/respondents-management/archived-respondents).
* **`Export completed / archived answers`** launch a [data export job](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/data-export).

## 🗄 Respondent grid layouts

Grid can be switched anytime to a card layout that displays each respondent and his answers one by one.

![](https://1025048312-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M8fLhS0bmfBRyq0HdUm%2F-MB_eZBdjJlTxxPq_tgi%2F-MB_fCpTsJalyxc5tbt1%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=f19d5447-9018-4661-bffb-d217a0a9df89)