MS Word Tip | Quickly Insert Sample Text into a Word Document

MS Word allows you to quickly insert sample text into a document. You can do this by typing =rand() in the document where you want the text to appear, and then pressing the ENTER key.

By default, the sample text ("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.") contains three (3) paragraphs, each containing five (5) sentences. You can control how many paragraphs and sentences appear by adding numbers inside the parentheses, for instance:

=rand(3,4)

The first number (3, in this example) is the number of paragraphs, and the second (4, in this example), the number of sentences per paragraph.

This can be very useful if you are designing a template or just want to fill the document with text to demonstrate formatting text, paragraph alignment, copy and paste, etc.

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MS Excel Tip | Select a Table Using a Keyboard Shortcut

You can select a range of data or table in an Excel worksheet by simply pressing Ctrl + [Shift] + * (Asterisk). Just make sure you click a cell in the data range.

This saves you time from highlighting all the cells within the data range.