Repeated blocks of questions

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Repeated blocks of questions

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Many projects have a block of questions that are repeated for different products or occasions.

To create these you could:

1.Define the first block of questions including any filters and variables

2.Select all the entries in the block

3.Copy (to clipboard)

4.Paste special (from clipboard)

5.In Paste special rename all the entries for the second block

6.Check to see if any entries referred to need changing and change if necessary

7.Paste the new entries

8.Use [Edit] [Text find and replace] from the Main window to change the product or occasion text

9.Repeat steps 3 to 8 for the remainder of the blocks

Any references in filters and variables within each block will be changed along with the entry names.

TIP: choose the names for the complete block to contain a common identifier.  For example, product 1 entries could  begin with P1, the second block with P2 and so on.

With the Extended version there is a Block replace available from Paste special that can rename all the entries in the block at once.

If you are setting data locations you can choose the starting data location for the entries being pasted with [Paste special].