=rand(p,s)

In Word 2007-10, =rand() produces a selection from the Help file.

=lorem() displays:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas porttitor congue massa. Fusce posuere, magna sed pulvinar ultricies, purus lectus malesuada libero, sit amet commodo magna eros quis urna.
Nunc viverra imperdiet enim. Fusce est. Vivamus a tellus.
Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Proin pharetra nonummy pede. Mauris et orci.

In French it's:
"Servez à ce monsieur une bière et des kiwis."

"Serve this gentleman a beer and some kiwis."

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VBA at your own risk

"Task Panes display within a Work Pane's area. A Work Pane is created by the combination of two objects. These objects are shrouded in misery and thwart most attempts to play with them. The whole area is hidden away from the Kill Cursor invoked with CTRL+ALT+-, which changes to a hand when waved over a Work Pane.

Functions are hidden away from the macro recorder. To make it easier, if it is not in this reference, it is hidden. It is like when a spy is caught and the government disavows all knowledge of their actions.

The Task Panes are spies from Microsoft that are known to only a few objects, in these versions of Office anyway.

Warning
The author gleefully notes at this point that the human race has enough intelligence to get itself into cauldrons of boiling water that it cannot climb out of and that means you and me both!

If you like to be ultra-safe, stay away from this reference and wait for MS to hand over full functionality. You will end up crashing Word many times and you can really damage your user interface."

Labels: Customize, General, Macros, Reference, Tips, Tutorials, VBA, View

A collection of hows

• How do I save so earlier versions of Word can open my documents? Talk about a one-two punch?
  Answer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074/en-us
  
  
• How do I recover a lost or over-written file? Who says the "are you sure" dialogs are annoying?
  Answer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827099/en-us
  
  
• How do I create a mail merge? The fifth tab on the Ribbon is a brand new take on Mail Merge.
  Answer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294694/en-us
  
  
• How do I scan documents into Word 2007?
  Answer: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA101786621033.aspx?pid=CH100675901033
  
  
• How to do stuff with templates?
  Answer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924460/en-us
  
  
• How do I create forms or use form fields?
  Answer: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100307461033.aspx?pid=CH100991571033

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Changes in '07

For a number of reasons, including collaboration, documents need to be reconciled. A resultant or master document must be distilled from different versions.

Here are some directions:

Compare - Combine

Comparing and Combining Documents

Back in the old days of 2003, you could save "versions" of documents. That's gone:
Bye-Bye Versions

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