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Microsoft Word’s Hidden Dummy Text Generator

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Tech blog The How-To Geek tells us about a fun little secret hidden in Microsoft Word. If you open up a new Word document, type =rand() and hit enter, Word will generate some dummy text automatically. Furthermore, you can control how many sentences and paragraphs are generated by passing numerical arguments to that rand() function.

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