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Old 05-24-2003, 08:53 AM
jseal jseal is offline
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dm383,

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but this is a built in feature of Word.

The basic idea's pretty cool. Open any document, in any version of Word - even Word for the Mac! - and on a new line type

=rand(10)

then hit Enter. Word will create ten paragraphs, each paragraph consisting of five sentences of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The original Word developers - I'm talking about Word for Windows 1.0 here - built this into Word so it would be easy to create a quick document, so they could test it.

In general "=rand(x)" will produce "x" paragraph, each with five sentences of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

There's a second form:

=rand(4,8)

which creates four paragraphs each with eight identical sentences: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Three weeks ago, I suggested you use =rand(10,10) to create ten paragraphs with ten sentences in each. That's more or less the size of a page. =rand(100) will give you 100 paragraphs each with five sentences, which occupies about 7 pages.

What about other languages? Each language version of Word has it's own phrase, not a translation of the fox and dog sentence. Like the English version, the foreign versions are normally a sentence that uses all the letters in the alphabet.
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