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Sample Printing in MS Word

Feb 9, 2007 3:42AM PST

I used to use a simple command in Word to greate bogus text. The command was something like:

Print 3/7

This would generate 3 paragraphs of 7 sentences each of "The quick brown fox..." Or something like that. But I forgot the command and syntax.

Does anyone remember this little trick?

Larry Gerhardt
LarryGrhardt@CS.Com

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=rand(1,2)
Feb 9, 2007 6:02AM PST

where 1 is the number of paragraphs you want, and
where 2 is the number of sentences you want.

The sentences being: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
(For those of you who wonder why that sentence, it contains all the letter of the English alphabet.

Typically this Word "trick" is used to just fill out a body of text to quickly test the formatting (page and line parameters) in your current document.)