fill page with text automatically

[Reggie]

There is a sentence (possibly start of nursery rhyme) which when typed
followed by a comma and then a number, automatically fills a page with that
number of lines. Can anyone remember what it is. It is useful for quickly
filling a page to demonstrate editing features when teaching.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

At the beginning of a paragraph type:
=Rand(4,3)

The first number is the number of paragraphs, the second is the number of
sentences. What the sentence contains depends on your language setting.
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Charles Kenyon

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[Michael Bednarek]

There is a sentence (possibly start of nursery rhyme) which when typed
followed by a comma and then a number, automatically fills a page with that
number of lines. Can anyone remember what it is. It is useful for quickly
filling a page to demonstrate editing features when teaching.

=Rand()

See: <http://support.microsoft.com/?id=212251>.

The following list is pinched from
<http://spaces.msn.com/members/optim...5&_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart>.

English: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (Alphabet Soup
[AS])

Spanish: El veloz murciélago hindú comía feliz cardillo y kiwi. (AS)

Italian: Cantami o Diva del pelide Achille l'ira funesta. (Homer,
Illiad)

Swedish: Flygande bäckasiner söka hwila på mjuka tuvor. (?)

French: Servez à ce monsieur une bière et des kiwis. (AS)

German: Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern.
(AS)

Norwegian: En god stil må først og fremst være klar. Den må være
passende. (Aristotle)

Danish: Quizdeltagerne spiste jordbær med fløde. (AS?)

Polish: Pchnac w te lódz jeza lub osm skrzyn fig. (?)

Portuguese: A ligeira raposa marrom ataca o cão preguiçoso. (?)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/DummyText.htm