atw: Re: More fun with MS Word
- From: Warren Lewington <wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:18:38 +1000
I am pretty sure that the lorem ipsum text insert only works in MS Word 2007
onwards. But the quick brown fox etc code line has been a wonderfully useful
piece of text over the years for me...
One of the few optional functions that really works ...
On 27/08/2012, at 1:03 PM, David Godley wrote:
> And if you are a traditionalist...
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> =lorem(p,s) works the same way.
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> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Geoffrey <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi austechies
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>> While we’re having fun with Word—its quirks and otherwise—here is a neat
>> feature if you need a lot of text in a mad hurry (as you might, for example,
>> if you wanted to experiment with some feature of the product). Type:
>>
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>> =rand(p,s) and press Enter
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>> where p = the number of paragraphs you want and s = the number of sentences
>> you want in each paragraph.
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>> Thus =rand(150,13) + <Enter> gives you 150 paragraphs each with 13 sentences
>> in them (randomly imported from the online help). That’s about 60 pages of
>> text to play with.
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>> Have fun.
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>>
>> Geoffrey Marnell
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>> Principal Consultant
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>> Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
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