Here's probably the most useless tip of the day you'll ever see, except you might amaze your friends that you know such thing exists. In Microsoft Word X, type: =rand(4,8) and hit enter. You'll end up with 4 paragraphs of 8 lines each repeating "The quick brown fox jumped off the lazy dog" Why would you do such a thing? Who knows.

Rick,

This is used to look at fonts and word/paragraph spacing. It uses very character in the alphabet.

Linda

Linda meant to write:
"It uses every character in the alphabet."

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Originally posted by Linda:
Rick,

This is used to look at fonts and word/paragraph spacing. It uses very character in the alphabet.

Linda

Seems that Spell Check may be another one of those under-used functions in Word for some people

Every won shoed use spell czech on there work. It makes you're grammar feel better. But, it don't pay syntax.

Dave,

Did you see what time I made that post!!!! Many hours past my bedtime plus it's hard to type with pumpkin hands

Smarty, spell check wouldn't have helped... I used a real word

Linda

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Smarty, spell check wouldn't have helped...

My point, exactly.

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I always wondered what jumped off my lazy dog...

But I would like to know who came up with that line? Can you imagine your boss giving you this task to do?

It's been a "typing test" phrase for as long as I can remember.

I want to know what "pumpkin hands" are!

Twilight Zone time...there is no "s" or "v" in
"The quick brown fox jumped off the lazy dog"

I remember the phase from when I was a child and it was "jumped over the lazy dog" That acounts for the "v". but I sure don't remember where the letter "s" was...unless it was dogs instead of dog.

Anybody

"Edward Scissor Hands"

"Linda Pumpkin Hands"

---- a new movie!

I believe the original was:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

And I just tried it - that *is* the phrase you get.

for some reason I remember typing

"now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party"

about a million times in typing class

That's for speed and coordination. The first one just teaches the location of all letters.

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Originally posted by dale:
for some reason I remember typing

"now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party"

about a million times in typing class

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Originally posted by Rick:
Here's probably the most useless tip of the day you'll ever see, except you might amaze your friends that you know such thing exists. In Microsoft Word X, type: =rand(4,8) and hit enter. You'll end up with 4 paragraphs of 8 lines each repeating "The quick brown fox jumped off the lazy dog" Why would you do such a thing? Who knows.

Okay Typing test thing aside...

I think the reason is that it provides "Lorum Ipsum" text which is used by graphic designers to test page layouts.

You can set up a page and fill it with "dummy Text" to check margins, layouts, etc. It looks better with "real words".

I just googled "lorum ipsum" and found out that lorum ipsum is actually real words and phrases in LATIN (I never knew that):

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

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.

The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.

lorum ipsum

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

This hits every letter of the alphabet for typing practice.

But now you type: =rand(4,8) and away goes the typing practice into the cosmos.
(Isn't that what computers are for? Learn the shortcuts, and you don't have to do "real" entries.)

In the days of System 7.X, I used ResEdit to change that phrase to "The slow, lazy fox was hit by a truck and is lying dead under a log"

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Originally posted by Jack Beckman:
I want to know what "pumpkin hands" are!

I turn into a pumpkin at midnight although these days, that happens at about 10 pm.

Linda