Saturday, July 17, 2010

Silly Trick of the Day: =Lorem(#,#) [Word/Outlook 2010 macro to automatically generate “Lorem” text]

.net Scraps - Did you know - There is a method called Lorem that gives you a bunch of text

“Today, while working with one of my colleagues, Chetan… I found a pretty neat trick to get some junk text in MS Word or Outlook.

Just type something like =Lorem(5, 2) and hit enter. Basically, you are telling to create 5 paragraphs of 2 lines each and so on…

…”

Some of the silly things you learn…

Before;

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After (hitting return);

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This works for me in Word/Outlook 2010 but not in Word/Outlook 2003.

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