Srinivas Sampath

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=Rand() in Microsoft Word

Saw this feature while I was watching a demo and it was quite cool.

The presenter was demonstrating the new blogging feature in Sharepoint 2007 and as part of this demo, Microsoft Word 2007 was used as the blogging editor. To insert some sample text into the block, the presenter typed =rand(3) in the document and some text appeared magically! I was suprised as to what was actually happening and to test this out I launched Word 2007 and typed in =rand(3) and voila, I got some random text.

Looks like this feature has been there from earlier versions too. I searched the internet and found this post: Inserting Random Text and it was interesting to see that you can control the number of paras and sentences in the paras as part of this syntax.

Interesting!

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