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Grep: sort paragraphs randomly

Community Beginner ,
Sep 19, 2023 Sep 19, 2023

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Greetings to everyone from Sardinia.
In Indesign is there a way to randomly order 4 lines of text?
I have a quiz consisting of 1 question and 4 possible answers, except the answers are arranged so that the first one is correct and the other 3 are wrong.

The question-answer block is constructed like this:

question 1
- answer 1 correct
- wrong answer 2
- wrong answer 3
- wrong answer 4

 

I would like to change the order randomly.

I could do it by hand but it's about 2000 questions and it would take a really long time

 

Greps are powerful tools but I haven't found anything online that can help me

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Sep 19, 2023 Sep 19, 2023

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Take a look to "SmartSort" Script written by Marc Autret:

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/ann-smartsort-1-17-free-script-advanced-paragrap...

 

Capture d’écran 2023-09-19 à 10.56.41.png

 

Capture d’écran 2023-09-19 à 10.56.55.png

 

So simple! Thanks Marc for this great tool!

 

(^/)  The Jedi

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Nov 07, 2023 Nov 07, 2023

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Hi, forgive me but I only see your reply now. I had solved it, so to speak, by moving the answers by hand, using Word, and it took me a lot of hours. But I'm curious and I want to try this script you pointed me to. From the attached images it seems to do exactly what I was looking for. A very warm thank you for your reply.

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