How do you randomize a list of questions in Word?

[Guest]

I need to randomize a list of 36 questions for a simple study I am doing.
Can I do this in Word? I need to sort a list, but randomly.

 

[Jezebel]

There's no easy way to do it in Word alone. Copy and paste the list of
questions into Excel, do it there, then copy back to Word. To do a random
sort in Excel, use the Rand() function in another cell in the each row, then
sort the rows on that number. If you need multiple random sequences, press
F9 and re-sort.

 

[Steve Yandl]

Put the questions in the first (leftmost) column of a table with 36 rows and
see if this subroutine doesn't get you what you want.

Steve Yandl


Sub ShuffleQuestions()

Dim Tmax As Integer
Dim strCell As String
Dim strQ As Variant
Dim strText As String
Dim I As Integer
Dim Z As Integer
Dim intQsLeft As Integer
Dim rndQ As Integer
Dim Q As Integer
Dim vArray As Variant

Set objDict = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")

Tmax = ThisDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Count

For I = 1 To Tmax
strCell = ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(I, 1).Range.Text
strQ = Left(strCell, Len(strCell) - 1)
objDict.Add strQ, strQ
Next I

ReDim arrQs(I - 1)

intQsLeft = I - 2
Z = 0


Do While intQsLeft >= 0
Randomize
rndQ = Int((intQsLeft + 1) * Rnd)
intQsLeft = intQsLeft - 1
vArray = objDict.Items
strText = vArray(rndQ)
arrQs(Z) = strText
Z = Z + 1
objDict.Remove strText
Loop

For Q = 1 To Tmax
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(Q, 1).Range.Text = arrQs(Q - 1)
Next Q


End Sub

 

[Steve Yandl]

Subroutine from above with a slight change to keep from inserting an extra
paragraph into each cell.

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Sub ShuffleQuestions()

Dim Tmax As Integer
Dim strCell As String
Dim strQ As Variant
Dim strText As String
Dim I As Integer
Dim Z As Integer
Dim intQsLeft As Integer
Dim rndQ As Integer
Dim Q As Integer
Dim vArray As Variant
Dim strNew As String

Set objDict = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")

Tmax = ThisDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Count

For I = 1 To Tmax
strCell = ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(I, 1).Range.Text
strQ = Left(strCell, Len(strCell) - 1)
objDict.Add strQ, strQ
Next I

ReDim arrQs(I - 1)

intQsLeft = I - 2
Z = 0


Do While intQsLeft >= 0
Randomize
rndQ = Int((intQsLeft + 1) * Rnd)
intQsLeft = intQsLeft - 1
vArray = objDict.Items
strText = vArray(rndQ)
arrQs(Z) = strText
Z = Z + 1
objDict.Remove strText
Loop

For Q = 1 To Tmax
strNew = arrQs(Q - 1)
strNew = Left(strNew, Len(strNew) - 1)
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(Q, 1).Range.Text = strNew
Next Q


End Sub