If you have a series of statements that all apply to one question, you might find that using a With...End With block helps you reduce the amount of repetition in the code and makes the code easier to read. This is certainly the case when you are defining the appearance of a question by setting style properties, where each property starts with the words <question_name>.Style. For example, if you want to specify the font, color and effect for the Unaided awareness question, as well as the orientation and number of rows for the response list, you can type:

Defining these requirements using With...End With means that you type the repeated words once only and the interviewing program automatically applies them to all the statements in the block.

To specify the requirements for the Unaided question, you could type:

Even though this reduces the amount of repetition, there are still further improvements that can be made. The With statement can name any object in the Interview Object Model (see Interview Object model), not just questions, so another change you can make is to have the With statement refer to the Style object for the Unaided question, and then move the Ask and Label.Style statements outside the block: