[Eric]

Im using Word 2003. Im trying to think of a creative way to use Word for an
unusual application.

Im taking some courses to prepare for a certification exam, and Im trying
to think of a way to use Word for €œflash cards€� €“ i.e., memorization cards.
Traditionally, flash cards are in physical form, and are simply cards with a
question printed on one side and an answer on the other.

I imagine an online version of flash cards, probably in the format of a
two-column table, where the first column has the questions and the second
column has the answers.

So far this is obviously easy. But heres the difficulty: Id like to hide
the answers before Im ready to look at them. So maybe Id click on the
question, and it becomes visible, but the answer is still hidden. Then when
Im ready for the answer, I click on the answer, and it then becomes visible.


Thats the principle. But how this €œclick to view€� would be implemented in
Word, I dont really have a good idea. Alternatively, the questions and
answers could be hidden, and only become visible when I hover the mouse
pointer on top of them. That would work fine €“ but I dont know any way in
Word to highlight text through a mouse hover-over.

Obviously Id prefer to do this in a simple way, where I can add a
question/answer pair quickly and easily, rather than a lot of complicated
formatting or lengthy macro programming. (Macros would be fine, as long as
its not something that requires a lot of modification to add a new
question/answer pair.)

As an additional complication, some of the answers will contain graphics
images which have been copied from another document. (For example, a formula
or diagram from a slide handed out by the instructor.) Ideally, Id like to
do the same thing with these: make them visible or invisible at will.

Id probably settle for something less than a perfect solution, but this is
the basic problem Im trying to solve.

Does anyone have any good ideas? (If not in Word, are there other good tools
that would do something like this?)

Thanks.