Hi, I need some help with this problem. Thanks in advance.
I need to write many, and long, multiple choice test documents. To handle them efficiently, I’ve designed two different LO Styles: one for questions and another one for answers.
These are my conditions for a proper multiple choice test formatting:
(1) Question paragraph should not split when it happens a page break (which happens often when questions are long). This can be achieved by: Styles → Edit style → Text Flow → unset “Allow to split paragraph”. OK
(2) Question paragraph should be glued with its (following) first answer paragraph → This can be achieved by: Styles → Edit style → Text Flow → set “Keep with next paragraph”. OK
(3) Answer paragraphs should stay all together: the 3 (or 4, or 5) different answers paragraphs should stay together when a page break is happening. But i don’t know how to achieve this. In the answers style, I could set something like “Keep with next paragraph” but it doesn’t work (and I guess it would favour potential dangers when to keep the whole document consistent). So eventually, when a question is near the bottom of the page and its answers are split, I manually add some blank lines before the question to let the question land on the following page and keep the question glued with its answers (this could be achieved with a manual page break as well). See question 7 in the example document: its answers are split in 2+1.
(4) Answers should be always a, b, c. To achieve this, the Answer paragraph is a numbered list style, to begin each line with a letter, following the sequence (a), (b), (c). This works for the first question. The second question, as expected, starts with (d). To avoid that, it can be achieved with: Right click → List → Restart numbering. Ok, this works. BUT it is a lot of work to navigate the whole document and do this for every first answer. I guess there could be a way to do it automatically using Styles, but I couldn’t find a way. See questions 3 and following in the example document: it starts with (d).
So, issues (1) and (2) are easy to solve, but issues (3) and (4) are not yet solved. Any hints?
LO version information:
Version: 24.2.7.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Environment: CPU threads: 8; OS; Linux 6.17
User interface: UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: es-ES (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB
Misc: Ubuntu package version: 4:24.2.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.4
Calc: threaded
Example document:
zexample_multiple_choice_test.odt (84.3 KB)