Question Formatting concern
Oct 30, 2014
Here is a concern I have for formatting Multiple-Choice answers.
How do I equally distribute vertically the answers and distracters in multiple choice questions? After generally spacing out the answers and selecting them all (Ctrl>Click) I have used the Arrange > Align > Distribute Vertically function successfully for (approx) 87.3% of the questions/answers I have but there are always a few that do not play nice. They seem to have a mind of their own in that the height is not adjustable for one (or more) answers and when I try to distribute the answers vertically, they never distribute equally.
I've tried many variations in the Format Shape > Text Box area for Autofit and Internal Margins – plus – the Size and Position > Size > Size (primarily) and Rotate height functions.
Most often as a default, the single line answers are standard at 55px high (some are 48px) using Calibri 12pt. The answer field(s) that are a problem usually have a height of 86PX.
This causes a problem when I set the answers to Shuffle and when I Preview the slide or Publish the story, the problem answers are misaligned and sometimes they are on top of each other.
What's the fix?
3 Replies
Hi Tom,
Thanks for the directions and the image - I'm testing this right now in a .story file with a bunch of multiple choice answers, that are all one line of text as in your image - and I can't see the same thing in my file. Could you share a copy of the .story file here with us?
Ashley - here are a couple samples of the multiple choice ANSWERS I'm having formatting issues with. Thanks for your help.
Tom
Thanks Tom - I see how in your example they were spaced a bit oddly, but when I applied the vertical alignment - it all looked normal again. Check out my updated version.
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