Sorry i'm new to Excel and my knowledge is tiny.

I'm guessing you mean to declare the variable where it says Option
Explicit.
Does the gl refer to it being a global variable?

How and where would I put the othere variable to show true/false if it
has been answered already? And once I had this second variable would I
have to refer to it with an If statement,

eg currently my second use of answer says;

For p = 1 to answer

Would it have to be
For p = 1 to answer if bla is true?

How would I word this?