Copying question and response text from other applications

You can copy the text of a question from another application (for example, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or a text editor such as Microsoft Word), and then paste it into UNICOM Intelligence Author. You can also copy and paste the text of one or more responses into a question in UNICOM Intelligence Author. Each response must be on a new line of the text editor, or in a separate cell of a table or spreadsheet.

Another method of converting the text in Word documents into a questionnaire (.mdd) file is to use UNICOM Intelligence WordCapture. This is useful if you have large numbers of questions in a Word document. For more information, see Opening files from other products in UNICOM Intelligence Author.

2 In the text file, Microsoft Word document, or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, select the question text, and then and press Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard.

3 In the Design pane in UNICOM Intelligence Author, click in the question text field, and then do one of the following:

▪To paste unformatted text, press Alt+E, S. If you paste into a section that already includes formatting, the pasted text uses the formatting of that section.

2 In the text file, Microsoft Word document, or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, select the responses that you want to copy.

If you are using Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel, you can use Shift+click or Ctrl+click to select individual lines in a document or individual cells containing the responses in a table or spreadsheet.

4 In UNICOM Intelligence Author, select the first row of the Responses column, and click Edit > Paste.

Do not click in the row twice, because this puts the Response row cell in edit mode, which enables you to edit the response text, but does not allow you to copy responses into separate rows. For more information, see Editing responses.

UNICOM Intelligence Author adds the text of each selected response on a separate row, and generates a name for each response based on the response text. If the text contains spaces or other characters that are not valid in names, UNICOM Intelligence Author replaces these in the response name (not the description) with _ (underscore) or another valid character. You can edit the response name in the Name column of the Design pane if required.