About two weeks ago I did some presentations at the Nationale Office Dag 2009 to show some tips and trips on Word, Excel and Outlook.

One of the tips in the Word presentation was how to create a stack of dummy text in order to check out your document layout by using the ‘Rand’ feature.

To test this, just open up a document and start typing ‘=rand(3,5)’ without the quotes and hit enter. Now you’ll notice that your document is provided with a bit of random text over 3 paragraphs containing 5 sentences.

Today I learned that when you have Word 2007 (or up) installed you can do the same thing with Lorem. Try it, do the same as with rand and start typing ‘=lorem(3,5)’ without the quotes and hit enter. Now you get the Lorem text you often see in Microsoft demos.

I promised to add some more Tips and Tricks information that I discussed at the presentations, but it has been extremely busy so this one is just a starter to begin with ;-) 

Have fun!