Check out this new feature of Word 2007 - you can now add random placeholder text! I can already smell the productivity gains :) - Thanks for the tips Logan!
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6.
Add random placeholder text.
Sometimes you need to add random text to a document
as part of a demonstration or to get a feel for a new layout. The designer's
standby is lorem ipsum, a block of Latin derived from Cicero's De
Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil).
The lorem ipsum text has no meaning for
modern readers, which makes it perfect for not being distracted by what the
text says, so you can instead focus on what it looks like.
Place your cursor where you want the random text to
start and type:
=lorem(x,y)
where x is the number of paragraphs you want
to insert and y is the number of sentences each paragraph should
contain. When you hit Enter, Word will insert the desired chunk of text. For
example, =lorem(1,4)
generates this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas porttitor congue massa. Fusce posuere,
magna sed pulvinar ultricies, purus lectus malesuada libero, sit amet commodo
magna eros quis urna. Nunc viverra imperdiet enim.
Prefer your dummy text in English? Word 2007 will
also insert English text, drawn from a Word 2007 tutorial, by replacing lorem with rand, like this:
=rand(1,4)
(Interestingly, in earlier versions of Word, the =rand function inserts repetitions of
the classic typesetter's dummy sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog." The tutorial text that Word 2007 uses is longer and more
varied.)
From:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Software&articleId=9128449&taxonomyId=18&pageNumber=3
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