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How to paste text or pictures...
1 Position the cursor where you want to insert the text, picture, column, or row.
2 Click or press Ctrl+V (PC) or Cmd+V (Mac) to paste the contents of the Clipboard into the current question.
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If you copied a multiple choice question, a set of matching choices, or a group of matching
questions, you can press F7 (PC) or Cmd+P (Mac) to use the Smart Paste feature rather
than the normal Paste feature, Ctrl+V (PC) or Cmd+V (Mac). ExamView Test Generator
automatically formats the text when it pastes the text into a new question.
EXAMPLE
Copy a multiple choice question and its choices from a word processing document. Choose
to create a new multiple choice question and press F7 (PC) or Cmd+P (Mac). ExamView will
paste the question stem text and then automatically paste each choice into the
corresponding table cell.
Using Find and Replace
How to find text in a question...
1 Click or click Edit and select Find, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F (PC) or Cmd+F (Mac).
2 Enter the text you want to locate and set the search options.
If you want to find text that exactly matches the case of your search text, click Match case. Click Find whole words
only to locate only complete words. When this option is not selected, the program will find all occurrences of a word,
even partial words. For example, searching for "the" will find "the," "there," and "them." Select From cursor to have the
program start searching from the location of the cursor. When this option is off, the program always starts searching
from the beginning of the question.
3 Click Find to begin the search.
4 To find the next occurrence of the same word or phrase, click Find Again or use the keyboard shortcut F3 (PC) or
Cmd+G (Mac).
How to replace text in a question...
1 Click Edit and select Replace, or use the shortcut Ctrl+R (PC) or Cmd+R (Mac).
2 Enter the text you want to find and the replacement text.
3 Set the search options.
If you want to find text that exactly matches the case of your search text, click Match case. Click Find whole words
only to locate only complete words. When this option is not selected, the program will find all occurrences of a word,
even partial words. For example, searching for “the” will find “the,” “there,” and “them.” Select From cursor to have the
program start searching from the location of the cursor. If you don't want the program to confirm each replacement, turn
off the Prompt to replace option.
4 Click Replace to replace only the first occurrence. Click Replace All if you want the program to find and replace all
occurrences of the text.
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