Comments on: Undocumented Word 2007 Feature: Insert Lorem Ipsum Text

By: markinboone

markinboone — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:54:19 +0000

The function only works when it’s the only text in the paragraph. In other words, entering =lorem() after existing text in the same paragraph will not generate the text; the text =lorum() will remain as is.

By: Excelled

Excelled — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:39:39 +0000

I remember something from Office 97, but I forget how it was done exactly. I remember we had opened Excel, then went to all most the last column, in all most the last box, typed something in, and then a Word 97 blank document would pop up, and every time you hit a specific key, it would flash the words “BILL GATES SUCKS” or something to that affect…I wonder if anyone else remembers that? If someone could remember how to do that, I will have to reinstall Office 97 again! Thanks!

By: Ivan Smirnov

Ivan Smirnov — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:32:05 +0000

=rand.old() will work in 2007 just like vintage pre-2007 =rand().
Might be useful for those who need less of a filler text but more of a font-testing string.

By: Darrhel

Darrhel — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:42:38 +0000

Atoz is wrong.

“Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.”

Reference: http://www.lipsum.com/

By: Eggbox

Eggbox — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:55:20 +0000

The complete list (that I have found so far) for Word 2007 is …

— Thin line
*** Broken line
### Thick line with two thin lines
=== Double line
~~~ Wavy line

By: Eggbox

Eggbox — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:33:26 +0000

What about — (3 hyphens) and Enter, this creates a horizontal line, and *** Enter to create a broken line.

By: Atoz

Atoz — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:04:31 +0000

Lorem ipsum paragraphs. doesn’t translate into anything, it’s nonsense with a resemblance to latin.

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:02:02 +0000

Well, in case your word processor can not generate dummy text, you can find several lipsum generators on internet. The one i often use is:
http://www.mobilefish.com/serv.....lipsum.php

By: r

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:33:46 +0000

The =lorem() only works on Word 07, but it’s still pretty cool!

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:09:43 +0000

Cool, I did not know that one — or, in fact, what Lorem ipsum means!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum