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Replacement of Lorem Ipsum dummy text

Hello everyone,

I am creating a template for a large corporation - over 5000 users - the client wants to see in the normal view "dummy text" when we release.

As you are aware Lorem Ipsum displays as spelling errors - red squiggly lines. I placed random English words as a "dummy text" and the client has come back with " how do we separate "instructional words" from the "random dummy text". I have suggested CAPS - luke warm response. Don't want to introduce colour as an option as this will lead to misuse of colour palette for text. Type Weight change is also not an option. Any insights appreciated and thanks in advance. 

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To: Edward
re:  dummy text

Eliminate the red squiggly lines by turning off spelling check under "Spelling and Grammar".
(in my older version of Word)
-Or-

Use this formula in Word...  =Rand(3, 6)
I get 3 paragraphs of 6 sentences each of...

  "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Your mileage may vary.

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Note that Word and PPT (at least in Windows) are apparently different in this respect.

The new =Rand() in PPT uses "The quick brown fox..." rather than text from the MS help files.

You can modify the results by supplying a couple of numbers:

 =Rand(number_of_paragraphs, number_of_sentences)

So =Rand(2,4) would give you two paragraphs of four sentences each.

=Lorem() takes only one number, the number of paragraphs you want:

=Lorem(4)

If you ask it for =Lorem(4,42) (ie, add a second number) it ignores anything past the first number. 

=Rand.Old() does this in PPT Windows:

Nada. Nothing. NottaDarnThing.

And as near as I can tell, there's no way to change the text that's inserted in PPT.

A win for Word, I'd say.

PowerPoint Help: https://www.pptfaq.com/
PPTools: https://www.pptools.com
Presentation Guild: https://presentationguild.org

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