I have a spreadsheet containing thousands of quiz questions and answers for an online course that I am building.
The spreadsheet is setup like this:
- Question 1, Answer A, *Answer B, Answer C, Answer D
- Question 2, Answer A, Answer B, Answer C, *Answer D
- Question 3, *Answer A, Answer B, Answer C, Answer D
The correct answer for each question has an asterisk in front of it.
There are a wide variety of questions so many of the answers are of different formats. Some are currency i.e. "$1.45" and others are formatted as dates like "January 23, 1987" and other answers are percentages like "47%".
I am using a Quiz building application which takes the excel spreadsheet and builds the quiz automatically from the spreadsheet; however, the issue is that it converts the excel data to plaintext.
Since some cells in the Excel spreadsheet are formatted as other types, such as Currency, Date and Percentage; they are changed when converted to plaintext - for example:
- "$1.45" is converted to "1.45"
- "January 23, 1987" is converted to "01/23/1987"
- "47%" is converted to "0.47"
This is an issue because I want the quiz to display the text equivalent to the formatted values; in other words I want them to be converted to text without changing from the way they look when they are in other formats; otherwise I will have to spend several months correcting the text by hand.
Does anyone know of a way to convert all formatted values in my spreadsheet to plaintext format without making any changes to the value that is displayed in the cell?
Your help is greatly appreciated.