Applying compound Looks
You format compound questions by applying compound Looks. You do this by selecting the compound question in the Questionnaire Items list and then selecting the required compound Look in the Looks list. UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper applies the default subLooks within the compound Look.
The types of subLooks are:
▪Question text. Use to display the name, short name, text, and instructions of the component questions.
▪Compound separator. Use to format the space between the question texts and the answers.
▪Shared list. Use to display the shared list. The shared list represents the categories of categorical questions and the subquestions of grid and numeric grid questions.
▪Categorical. Use to display mark fields for categorical questions.
▪Grid. Use to display the categories and mark fields for grid questions. This type is also known as categorical grid subLook.
▪Numeric grid. Use to display the categories and character fields for numeric grid questions.
After you have applied a compound Look to a compound question, you may find that you need to make small manual adjustments to the formatting. This is particularly true in compound questions that contain grid or numeric grid questions. For example, you may need to resize the columns in the answer portion of any grid and numeric grid questions in the compound question. It is generally easier to make these adjustments in Normal view and showing the table gridlines. Remember that any manual formatting you do will be lost when you apply another Look or update the document to a new version of the questionnaire definition.
Sometimes, there may be more than one subLook of a particular type within a compound question. You can then change the subLooks that are applied by defining different subLooks as defaults and reapplying the compound Look. You set the default subLooks in the Look Organizer.
To apply a compound Look
1 Click in the compound question.
2 From the Paper menu, choose Apply Looks.
This opens the Apply Looks dialog box. The current compound question is highlighted in the Questionnaire Items list, the current compound Look is highlighted in the Looks list, and a red arrow appears next to the Look name. In addition, the compound question is displayed in the preview pane. You can use zoom to view the preview more closely. Clicking in the preview pane causes the view to zoom in and out.
3 Select a compound Look from the Looks list, and then click OK.
UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper applies the default subLooks within the compound Look to the different parts of the compound question. UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper displays a progress indicator while it does this. You can stop the process by clicking Cancel. However, any items that have already been updated when you click Cancel retain the new Look.
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