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hi i have two documents trivia questions and trivia answers what is the easiest way to combine the trivia answers to trivia questions coz theres so many questions im tired of copying the answers to the end of every question
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It's difficult to say without seeing how the two are organized. If they have
one-to-one correspondence, e.g., in one file you have: Q1. Who is John Smythe? Q2. Who cares who John Smythe is? Q3. When did John Smythe die? And in the other file, you have: A1. John Smythe was nobody. A2. Nobody cares who he was. A3. Who cares when he died? If each question/answer is a separate paragraph, one approach would be to convert each file into a long table column with one row for each question/answer. Then in the Question document, insert a parallel blank table column, then copy/paste the answers from the Answer file into that column. To convert a set of paragraphs into a table, select it and choose Table - Convert - Text to Table,. and make sure Separate Text At is set to Paragraphs. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "ottozuts" wrote in message news hi i have two documents trivia questions and trivia answers what is the easiest way to combine the trivia answers to trivia questions coz theres so many questions im tired of copying the answers to the end of every question thank you -- ottozuts |
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To follow up on Herb's suggestion, if, after you have created the two-column
table with the questions in the left column and the answers in the right, you still want questions and answers in succeeding paragraphs, you can use Table | Convert | Table to Text, separating with paragraph marks. If you want distinct paragraph styles for the questions and answers, apply these to the appropriate columns before converting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... It's difficult to say without seeing how the two are organized. If they have one-to-one correspondence, e.g., in one file you have: Q1. Who is John Smythe? Q2. Who cares who John Smythe is? Q3. When did John Smythe die? And in the other file, you have: A1. John Smythe was nobody. A2. Nobody cares who he was. A3. Who cares when he died? If each question/answer is a separate paragraph, one approach would be to convert each file into a long table column with one row for each question/answer. Then in the Question document, insert a parallel blank table column, then copy/paste the answers from the Answer file into that column. To convert a set of paragraphs into a table, select it and choose Table - Convert - Text to Table,. and make sure Separate Text At is set to Paragraphs. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "ottozuts" wrote in message news hi i have two documents trivia questions and trivia answers what is the easiest way to combine the trivia answers to trivia questions coz theres so many questions im tired of copying the answers to the end of every question thank you -- ottozuts |
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