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Freezing questions in Qualtrics

Sometimes with Qualtrics, we may find that we want to freeze a question so that a participant can't interact with it. Why? Perhaps you are creatively displaying a participant's previous answer (i.e., piping a previous answer) to a question in a slider format, but you don't want to allow the participant to mess with the slider. You just want to show them what they answered before. To illustrate this, let's say a participant answered "40" for this question: On another page in the survey, you want to remind the participant what they wrote but still in that slider format (see this page for how to do this with piped text:  https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/question-options/add-default-choices/ ). And maybe you want to ask them for why they answered in this way, like this: If you use default choices, you can show participant's their previous answer in this slider format, but this also allows the participant to "play

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