atw: Re: More fun with MS Word
- From: Martin Puchert <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:45:09 +1000
Lorem(p,s) doesn't work with 2011, whereas rand(p,s) does work in 2011.
But it was a welcome distraction from what I actually was trying to write.
Cheers
Martin
From: <Peter.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:40:55 +1000
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Subject: atw: Re: More fun with MS Word [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Yep. Tried it in 2003 and there isn't a vulpes velox in sight.
Peter M
From: Warren Lewington <wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 27/08/2012 01:19 PM
Subject: atw: Re: More fun with MS Word
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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...
>
> =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 we¹re 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). That¹s about 60 pages of
>> text to play with.
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>> Have fun.
>>
>>
>>
>> Geoffrey Marnell
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