atw: Re: More fun with MS Word [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
- From: Peter.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:40:55 +1000
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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> =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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Have fun.
>>
>>
>>
>> Geoffrey Marnell
>>
>> Principal Consultant
>>
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