Lorem Ipsum in Microsoft Word

There is a neat little trick in Microsoft Word (though only in 2007 and 2010 versions) which lets you add Lorem Ipsum text.

Just write: =lorem([num of paragraphs],[num of rows]) on an empty line and press enter. You don't have to provide number of paragraphs or lines, but in that case just use empty braces.

Lorem Ipsum is pseudo Latin nonsensical text used usually by publishing and design professionals to give them the idea how their work (e.g. document, book, web page) would look with some realistic text in it.

Microsoft Word unfortunately uses text which repeats itself, while better generators implement some form of Markov chain.

If Microsoft Word is not at hand, I've used for many years a nice online Lorem Ipsum generator...

N:: on 08/21/2010