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It's super easy to put generic text into a Word document for all of your filler text needs (especially useful during demos and presentations). Just start a new paragraph and:
Example of the result of "=rand()"
On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document. You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and other document building blocks. When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate with your current document look.
You can easily change the formatting of selected text in the document text by choosing a look for the selected text from the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab. You can also format text directly by using the other controls on the Home tab. Most controls offer a choice of using the look from the current theme or using a format that you specify directly.
To change the overall look of your document, choose new Theme elements on the Page Layout tab. To change the looks available in the Quick Style gallery, use the Change Current Quick Style Set command. Both the Themes gallery and the Quick Styles gallery provide reset commands so that you can always restore the look of your document to the original contained in your current template.
Example of "=lorem()"
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. Fusce est. Vivamus a tellus.
Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Proin pharetra nonummy pede. Mauris et orci.
If you'd like more or less than three paragraphs, you can get specific like this:
For example, "=lorem(1,6)" gives you:
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. Fusce est. Vivamus a tellus.
And "=rand(1,6)" gives you:
On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document. You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and other document building blocks. When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate with your current document look. You can easily change the formatting of selected text in the document text by choosing a look for the selected text from the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab. You can also format text directly by using the other controls on the Home tab. Most controls offer a choice of using the look from the current theme or using a format that you specify directly.
If you only include one number between the parentheses, that number will be the number of paragraphs, and each of the paragraphs will have five sentences in them. So "=rand(1)" does this:
Lastly, if you can't get enough filler text, know that you will max out at about 200 pages of filler text per "insertion." For example, you can type "=lorem(111,111)" for 111 paragraphs with 111 sentences each, or 129 pages of filler, but you cannot type "=lorem(99999999999999999, 99999999999999999)" on your least favorite co-worker's computer to bring their CPU to its knees. J
- Jonathan Bailor
PS In the interest of completeness, you can also use "=rand.old()" to insert an assorted number of sentences and paragraphs of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
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I must be missing something. I tried both =rand() and =lorem() in a new paragraph, pressing Enter after typing each, and nothing happened. Word 2007.
I had the same problem. I fixed it with support.microsoft.com/.../212251 "By default, the inserting sample text feature in Word 2007 is turned on. However, the inserting sample text feature is disabled when the Replace text as you type option is turned off. To turn the Replace text as you type option on or off, follow these steps: Click the Office Button, click Word Options, click Proofing, and then click AutoCorrect Options. Click to select or to clear the Replace text as you type check box."
Are there other functions in Word like this?
Hi Matthew David - To make sure I answer your question appropriately, are you asking if there are other ways to type something and have that trigger something else, or are you asking something more specific? - Jonathan Bailor
Doesn't seem to work on my Mac in Word. And yes,
Replace text as you type option is turned on.
1. Active document: The document in use.
2. AutoCorrect: A feature that automatically replaces common capitalization, spelling, and grammatical errors with the correct text as you enter it.
3. AutoFormat as you type: A feature that provides a predefined format applied to a report, a form, a worksheet, or a table.
4. Click and type: A feature found in word whereby clicking the mouse button in a particular place in a document will relocate the insertion point to that location. 5. Clipboard: A memory area of the computer where data is stored temporarily.
6. Cut and Paste: A method of moving a text or graphic.
7. Drag and drop: A method of moving text using the mouse.
8. Insert mode: Mode that shifts existing characters to the right when new characters are inserted.
9. Landscape orientation: A paper orientation that is wider than it is tall.
10. Non-breaking space: A code inserted between words to prevent them from breaking during word-wrap. 11. Normal view: The default view in word and power point.
12. Outline view: A view in word and PowerPoint that displays text in an outline format.
13. Overtype mode: Mode that replaces existing text with new text.
14. Portrait orientation: A paper orientation that is taller than wide.
15. Print layout view: Shows how the finished document will look.
16. Reading layout view: A view in word that optimizes the reading experience by hiding all toolbars expect for the reading layout.
17. Save as: You save the document as it is.
18. Show/hide codes: A feature that allows the users to display or conceal document formatting codes.
19. Task pane: Appears on the right of the document/data/slide window on startup, and shows options pertinent to the task at hand.
20. Web layout view: The document view in word that allows you to se how a document will look on the web.
21. Word-wrap: A feature that automatically advances text to the next line without pressing the enter key.
22. Zoom: Used to magnify or reduce the size of the document on screen.
Hello MS Word team, Since there is no contact button on the blog, I'll try this. I have two suggestions based on Word 2007. 1) Add, or even move, the Help function to the Office button's menu. All application functions are there, I can't figure out why Help is not. If you do not decide to move it, at least make the current "?" button a bit more discoverable. 2) Add a feature to easily insert-create-edit-delete a tree structure/diagram. I know this might be overlapping with other Office programs, but so are other features. I think it would hugely advance Word as an editor. Keep it up. David
By the way, an even more nice alternative to (2) would be to add "tree structure/diagram" as a suboption or extension to the Bulleted List feature. A bulleted list (with several levels) can easily be displayed as a tree and vice versa. David.
1.command gropus added to the quick access toolbar closes once a command in the command group is selected;this behavior is rather a pain when you need to issue several commands one after another,Consider changing this behavior.
eg: If I add the alignment command group to the quick access toolbar,click on a cell and change it's alignment to center ,nope it doesn't look good ,I click the alignment button on the quick access toolbar again to change it to left align ,nope doesn't look good either ,I have to keep clicking the button on the qa toolbar everytime I make a choice,now if the command group would stay open I could make my choice and take the mouse away to make the command group collapse after I am done,life would be so much easier 2.I'd like to see some text on the quick access toolbar(instead of just icons) so could use it with more confidence 3.Custom ribbon tabs? So I could make ribbon tabs with my most frequently used commands, instead of just the built in ones
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