One of the advantages of managing questions in Word is that you can collapse the headings in the Navigation pane to help with navigation, and you can also choose Outline view, which lets you collapse sections or subsections too.
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There is a set of Moodle plugin tools for managing question categories that might help: see https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=78.
The WordTable plugin (which I developed, see https://moodle.org/plugins/qformat_wordtable) allows you import and export questions from Word. In Word, it uses headings for question categories and names, so using the navigation pane feature of Word is quite a convenient way to manage questions (see this video for an explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=WBzSSoLl61Q). Word also has good search (and replace) facilities.
The WordTable plugin (which I developed, see https://moodle.org/plugins/qformat_wordtable) allows you import and export questions from Word. In Word, it uses headings for question categories and names, so using the navigation pane feature of Word is quite a convenient way to manage questions (see this video for an explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=WBzSSoLl61Q). Word also has good search (and replace) facilities.
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The WordTable plugin allows you specify all the settings when creating the question, so that you don't have to fix them up individually after importing them.
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In order to re-import questions exported to a .doc file, you must first open the file in Word, and then save it to .docx format. You can't just rename the file to have a different suffix. The .doc file exported from Moodle actually contains HTML text with some extra markup to format the text nicely when it is opened in Word. The .doc suffix is used to fool Windows into automatically opening the file using Microsoft Word. The .docx format is really a Zip file containing a number of XML files containing WordprocessingML, and the WordTable plugin processes this XML into the Moodle Question XML format. Simples!
Moodle in English -> Quiz Bulk changing the 'Maximum mark' for individual questions in a quiz. -> Re: Bulk changing the 'Maximum mark' for individual questions in a quiz.
For questions already in the question bank, you could export them to a Moodle Question XML format file, edit the file in a text editor, and do a global search and replace to change
<defaultgrade>1.0000000</defaultgrade>
to
<defaultgrade>4.0000000</defaultgrade>
When you re-import the the XML file, I believe they should overwrite the existing questions.
For questions not yet in the question bank, you could consider my Microsoft Word File Import/Export (Question Format) plugin, which allows you create questions in a table in Word, and supports editing all the question metadata, including the default mark. You can then import the Word file directly into the Moodle question bank in a course, and each table is converted into a separate question. In the longer term, you can probably train the teachers to write the questions using this facility, and do yourself out of a boring job. I have some instructional videos on this Moodle2Word YouTube playlist.