Apr 24, 2008
Generate Lorem Ipsum Text in Microsoft Word
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If you’re working on MS Word and need to insert a sample piece of pseudo text to demonstrate something, there’s a quick way to do so. Just by typing in a command and pressing enter, you can fill up your document with sample, lorem ipsum paragraphs easily.
Here’s how:
- Open your document in MS Word
- Place your cursor where you want the Lorem Ipsum text to appear, type =lorem() and press Enter
- You’ll now see sample, pseudo latin Lorem Ipsum paragraphs in your document, like this:
- If you want a specific number of paragraphs of lorem ipsum text and want each paragraph to contain a particular number of lines, you can use the attributes of the =lorem() command to do the job for you. For instance, if you want 5 paragraphs of lorem ipsum text generated with each paragraph containing 2 sentences, you should type =lorem(5,2)
That is how you generate Lorem Ipsum in Microsoft Word. If you’ve got anything to say, tell us in the comments section below. Please note that the above commands are known to work with Microsoft Word 2007. If you’re using an earlier version of Word, you can try the =rand() command.
5 Comments, Comment or Ping
DotNetYuppie
Wow — I had no idea that MS Word was capable of doing such a thing. Are there any other functions, or perhaps a reference list of functions, available for word/office?
I tried something like =sum(5+2), but it didn’t work, so I assume most excel-like functions aren’t going to work…
Apr 25th, 2008
Sankaranand
nice at first i thought the language used is brazil and was entered by the author of the site.. but now came to know its latin and huh demonstrate text things.
thanks for sharing it
Apr 25th, 2008
Haris
Do you have any idea what does these lines mean?
Apr 25th, 2008
Izl
try =rand(200,99)
Apr 27th, 2008
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