Quick tips to get some text into Office...

To quickly create some text in a word 2007 document to send something decent to a printer just type: (not tried this on old versions)

“=rand(20)” (without the quotes)

To generate random numbers in Excel try

“=RAND()*100”

 

As an update to this blog post, MVP Blake Handler wrote

"=rand() was an old way of getting text into Word documents

 

NOW . . . under Word 2007 there's a newerer method.

 

=lorem()

 

This is "Lorem" text sample that is more evenly distrubted than "The quick brown fox . . .""

 

Thanks for the update Blake, much appreciated :)