Make flash cards from your own notes instead of typing them in Word

Making cards by hand in Word versus generating them

Microsoft Word can handle a small deck, and knowing how to make flash cards in Microsoft Word is useful if you need a printed handout. For studying, though, the slow part is writing every question and answer yourself, and a table with two columns does nothing to tell you which cards to review next.

• Word table: two columns, one term and one answer per row, typed by hand
• Printed index cards: fold or cut a page and write each side yourself
• Mail Merge: pulls rows from a spreadsheet into a Word template, but still needs the rows written first
• AI generation: upload a PDF, slides, notes or a photo and get draft cards to review