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Macros for Word 6

A suite of macros to produce language exercises is available from the School of Modern Languages at Liverpool John Moores University. They enable the user to produce exercises quickly and simply from existing text files in Roman character sets. In each case, the macro removes some element or modifies the structure of the source text; this is presented to the student who must re-construct the original.

The macros are fully integrated into Word 6, and are ready to run from a Toolbar as icons. They may be customised like any Word macro to run from a menu or the keyboard.

The seven macros have the following functions:

1. Change case: convert to upper/lower case.
2. Remove accents: some or all of 30 accented characters in upper and lower case may be selected.
3. Remove spaces between words.
4. Remove punctuation: some or all of 14 punctuation characters (including reverse exclamation and question marks) may be removed.
5. Remove hard returns, so that paragraphs fuse.
6. Scramble a text by sentence or by paragraph.
7. Make a gap-fill exercise. There are a number of user options: frequency of gap, which word to start the exercise from, replace gapped word with same number of dashes as letters in the word or with a standard number throughout the text, append a list of the removed words at the end of the text in alphabetical or random order, auto-save of gapped text with a new filename.

More than one macro may be run on the same text: all accents, punctuation and hard returns, for example can be stripped from a text.

The macros may be used to produce worksheets, or downloadable exercises accessed over a network with a correct version available alongside for self-correction. Learners can also create exercises using their own selection of source text.

The suite of macros is available free from:

William Haworth
School of Modern Languages
Liverpool John Moores University
98 Mount Pleasant
Liverpool  L3 5UZ

Please send a 3.5" disc and SAE. Alternatively, it may be downloaded as a .zip file from ftp://www.livjm.ac.uk/pub/language/language.zip.

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