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Some one once showed me a shortcut that produced the Quick Brown Fox block of text which is useful for testing anything that needs a few paragraphs of useless text. I think there is another one that produces a block of latin text too. Of course I now cant remember what it was they did.

Kerry

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Do you mean in Word.

If so type the following, changing the numbers to suit your needs.
=rand(3,2)

This will produce 3 paragraphs each consisting of 2 sentences. In Word 2007 it now generates information about Word rather than “the quick brown fox…”

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Microsoft Word has a trick to produce a number of copies of the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”:
– Make sure that the insertion point is in an empty paragraph.
– Type =rand()
– Press Enter.
By default, you’ll get 3 paragraphs of 5 sentences each. You can vary the number of paragraphs and of sentences per paragraph by typing for example =rand(9,2) – this will generate 9 paragraphs of 2 sentences each.

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The pseudo latin text begins with “Lorem ipsum” and is often used by printers a dummy filler text for mockups etc.

See Lorem Ipsum – All the facts for background info and a dummy text generator.

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Sensational!

Thanks everyone.

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