Compound Looks are special Looks that describe how compound questions are to appear in a paper questionnaire. Compound questions present a number of related but separate questions as a group. These questions can be categorical, grid, or numeric grid questions. A compound question can contain questions of any of these three types in combination; for example, three categorical questions, or a categorical question, a grid question, and a numeric grid question.

Each question within the compound question has its own question text, and these are listed at the top of the compound question. The answers to the questions are presented side by side below the question texts, using a shared list. The shared list represents the category list for the categorical questions and the subquestion list for the grid and numeric grid questions.

A compound Look consists of several subLooks, each of which describes how a particular part of the compound question is to appear: