if i enter = rand (10, 10) i am suppose to get quick brown fox on

[barbara]

short cuts if i enter the above i am suppose to get 5 pages of quick brown
fox i have done this and nothing happens help please

 

[Pat Garard]

Hi Barbara,

1. Start at the beginning of a line
2. NO spaces: =rand(10,10)
3. Press Enter immediately after the final ')'

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

And you must have AutoCorrection enabled.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

And, you don't really need the 10,10 bit. Just plain =rand() is sufficient.
For rand(x,y), x is the number of paragraphs to create, and y is the number
of sentences per paragraph. If you omit the parameters, the default is 3,3.
In Word 2007, you get a description of Word features instead of quick foxes.
(It also works in Outlook 2007.)

 

[Pat Garard]

Ah Suzanne! You think (and drink) deeply!
"
A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts ;
While from the bounded level of our mind
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind,
But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise
New distant scenes of endless science rise !
So pleased at first the towering Alps we try,
Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ;
The eternal snows appear already past,
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ;
But those attained, we tremble to survey
The growing labours of the lengthened way ;
The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes,
Hill peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise !
"

 

[Tony Jollans]

In Word 2007, you get a description of Word features instead of quick

foxes.

.. which I find a lot better, but you can still get the quick foxes with
=rand.old(x,y)

 

[Peter Jamieson]

For the classicists, in Word 2007 we also get

=lorem()

(see

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212251

but it would be interesting to know if there are any other such
functions lurking in there.

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk