Random text: Needed filler or future prose?

re: Random text: Needed filler or future prose?

Doug Thomas — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:11:45 GMT

ostrom1979:

I don't know what kind of template you have, but it it's Excel, copy one line, highlight six empty rows and paste. FInd more at Microsoft Answers: answers.microsoft.com/.../default.aspx

re: Random text: Needed filler or future prose?

ostrom1979 — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:41:04 GMT

Hi Doug. I am trying to use your schedule template for my three stores. Your template is good for 20 employees and 9 shifts. I have 26 employees and 15 shifts. How do I expand the lists to allow more employees and shifts. Thanks for your time.

re: Random text: Needed filler or future prose?

Marjo Roberts-van Ee — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:58:37 GMT

in Word 2007 and 2010 you can type =lorem() Enter which generates the lorem ipsum text. It really impresses my audience - Word is so clever :) !

re: Random text: Needed filler or future prose?

Doug Thomas — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:00:08 GMT

Bob: Thanks for the additional information!

re: Random text: Needed filler or future prose?

household cleaner — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:38:58 GMT

It was useful to me.

re: Random text: Needed filler or future prose?

Bob Flisser — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:49:37 GMT

In Word (any version), you can specify how many paragraphs of random text you want, and how many sentences in each paragraph. For example, if you type =rand(8,5) and press Enter, Word will spit out 8 paragraphs of filler text consisting of 5 sentences each. (After that, I usually press Ctrl + A, then Ctrl + 0 to select all text and insert 12 points of space above each paragraph.)

Also: in Word 2003 and older, the dummy text will be "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" over and over. But in Word 2007 and 2010, the text will be taken randomly from help files. This is an improvement, since the words and sentences will be of varying length.