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06/11/09 | by Troy Chollar ![[mail]](img/envelope.gif)
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| Categories: Tutorial Here is a nifty programming trick that can be helpful when you are demoing PowerPoint (as I have been with a number of specialty training programs).
In any text box, in either PPT 2003 or 2007, type this: =rand()
Then Enter/Return.
It will automatically be filled with a few paragraphs of "The quick brown fox..."!
- Troy @ TLC
2 comments
Comment from: Patrick [Visitor] · http://www.slidefinder.net
A little deja vu feeling going off here. Sometimes it feels like people have been using that feature extensively, and not to demo PowerPoint. :)
06/11/09 @ 08:37
Comment from: AdamV [Visitor] · http://veroblog.wordpress.com
You can also make it a bit less "random" and choose how much to add by doing
=rand(3,2) for example, which will add 3 paragraphs of 2 sentences (two repetitions of "quick brown fox..." in other words)
This same feature works in Word 2003, 2007 (I don't have 2000 installed on this machine to check if it was already in there). Syntax the same, great for adding whole pages of stuff with =rand(9,7). Rather than "quick brown fox" it adds a short extract from the help files, begining "On the insert tab..." and ending "...your current template".
In Word 2007 there is an additional version of this which inserts the well known "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...". So, you can use =lorem() on it's own or be more precise with =lorem(p,s) for p paragraphs of s sentences each. Just note that some of the sentences of this standard text can actually be quite short, one or two words only.
=rand(3,2) for example, which will add 3 paragraphs of 2 sentences (two repetitions of "quick brown fox..." in other words)
This same feature works in Word 2003, 2007 (I don't have 2000 installed on this machine to check if it was already in there). Syntax the same, great for adding whole pages of stuff with =rand(9,7). Rather than "quick brown fox" it adds a short extract from the help files, begining "On the insert tab..." and ending "...your current template".
In Word 2007 there is an additional version of this which inserts the well known "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...". So, you can use =lorem() on it's own or be more precise with =lorem(p,s) for p paragraphs of s sentences each. Just note that some of the sentences of this standard text can actually be quite short, one or two words only.
06/14/09 @ 03:53
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