When it comes to dummy text, I always go by the eternally useful Lorem ipsum sequence. That means that I have to use its own generator or the text sequence saved comfortably in a text file ready for my use. However, for Microsoft Word users, you don’t have to pull up any other generator just to place dummy text on your document. You can actually generate paragraphs of text using the magical syntax:
=rand(p,s)
where p is the number of paragraphs you’d want generated and s being the number of sentences in each paragraph. For example, =rand(2, 10) will create two paragraphs with 10 sentences each. Inputing =rand() will generate three paragraphs. Just type this on your document and watch text generated automatically. Since Easter Eggs aren’t really legal in Windows or Office, Microsoft actually documented this bit.
Thanks to How-to Geek.
2 Responses
Claude Gelinas
September 5th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
1I wonder if I’ll ever use this because, in my personal creative process, I always start by writing the words before I attempt to make them look good.
Pictures and niceties come at the very end.
Hence my cluelessness as to when I’d be using the “Lorem Ipsum” alternatives available in MS-Word ; )
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