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Old 09-14-2020, 11:57 AM
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Hi everyone. I was hoping someone could help me with a coding challenge. I create test bank questions, and I'm looking for a way to highlight the correct answer option in Word based on what is in the answer field.



For example, in this question, I would want to highlight the paragraph "b. dog" based on the paragraph "Ans: B".

Type: MC
Shuffle: Yes
1. Which animal makes the best pet?
a. lion
b. dog
c. giraffe
d. whale
Ans: B

Does anyone have a recommendation on how to accomplish this?
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You will need to provide an example document which shows EXACTLY what the document will contain. Specifically, we need to see the styles and whether the numbers and letters are automatic lists or manually typed.
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The above is an exact replication of what is in the Word documents. All text is manually keyed (no autolists), there are no double spaces or tabs in the file, and there is no paragraph styling.

I thought I could search for "Ans: A" and then insert "<ans>" at the start of the line with the a. answer option. Same for answers B, C, and D. I can get that to work, but I'm not clear on how to set up a Do While (or whatever would be appropriate) for this type of work.

Once the "<ans>" tag is applied, I can apply the highlighting.

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Here is one approach. It assumes you have an "Answer" style in your document to apply to the correct answers. You can then have a secondary macro that toggles the "Answer" style as being same/different to the Normal style if you wanted to show or hide the answers.
Code:
Sub MarkAnswers()
  Dim lngPara As Long, iOffset As Integer, sAnswer As String
  For lngPara = 1 To ActiveDocument.Paragraphs.Count
    If Left(ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(lngPara).Range.Text, 5) = "Ans: " Then
      sAnswer = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(lngPara).Range.Words(3)
      iOffset = Asc(sAnswer) - 69
      Debug.Print lngPara, sAnswer, iOffset
      ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(lngPara + iOffset).Range.Style = "Answer"
    End If
  Next lngPara
End Sub

Sub ToggleAnswerShow()
  Dim aSty As Style
  With ActiveDocument.Styles("Answer")
    If .Font.Bold = ActiveDocument.Styles("Normal").Font.Bold Then
      .Font.Bold = True
      .Font.ColorIndex = wdGreen
    Else
      .Font = ActiveDocument.Styles("Normal").Font
    End If
  End With
End Sub
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