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17-Jan-2005, 02:13 PM #1
Word: little known trick
In an open Word document, on a empty line type =rand(3,5) and then press the Enter key.

Cool huh! You can adjust those numbers to other values to get the results per either value. (Being cryptic here so as to not give a clue as to what the line does without you trying it first.)

Now, knowing this trick, some of you may find some good use for it; such as testing page layouts, or formats.
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17-Jan-2005, 04:27 PM #2
Hello Peep ChuckE
I came across this in a mag - good for testing out your own fonts - it IS smart! x
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18-Jan-2005, 08:52 AM #3
interesting. never knew you could do that. cool.
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18-Jan-2005, 12:31 PM #4
interesting, but I don't see any good purpose.
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18-Jan-2005, 01:52 PM #5
A great purpose is for it to be used to test line wraps, paragraph breaks, page ends, font sizes, line spacing, or anything else where you need to have a lot of text entered and you don't want to go through the typical copy/paste methods.

History is full of people who saw the usefulness of seemingly "useless" items or happenings.
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18-Jan-2005, 02:21 PM #6
Interesting... the first number gives the times the paragraph as a whole will be repeated, the second number gives the times the sentences themselves will be repeated w/in each paragraph. ChuckE
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22-Jan-2005, 10:02 AM #7
i had read abt this a some time back........never found out how i cud use it until now.....
thanks chucke

just curious......is there any way you can change the text that is repeated??
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22-Jan-2005, 01:09 PM #8
re: "is there any way you can change the text that is repeated"

Sure . . . Search and Replace

Otherwise, I would not think so. Unless, of course, if you want to hack away at the code in Word. (I wouldn't, not that I don't know how, but I wouldn't want to screw up Word in areas I had no idea I also touched.)
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22-Jan-2005, 02:02 PM #9
lol.......ok........
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22-Jan-2005, 03:53 PM #10
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Originally Posted by Roshith
i had read abt this a some time back........never found out how i cud use it until now.....
thanks chucke

just curious......is there any way you can change the text that is repeated??
no sweat... spell it correctly... abt? cud?...

buck
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