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Dave,

I am also keen on the change that Microsoft made. The quick brown fox is finally in its burrow (for keeps!!....at least I think!)

Now, with Word 2007 the sample text has changed to these 9 sentences:
On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document. You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and other document building blocks. When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate with your current document look. You can easily change the formatting of selected text in the document text by choosing a look for the selected text from the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab. You can also format text directly by using the other controls on the Home tab. Most controls offer a choice of using the look from the current theme or using a format that you specify directly. To change the overall look of your document, choose new Theme elements on the Page Layout tab. To change the looks available in the Quick Style gallery, use the Change Current Quick Style Set command. Both the Themes gallery and the Quick Styles gallery provide reset commands so that you can always restore the look of your document to the original contained in your current template.

I am keen on the change, because one can also learn about the new improvements in the program, directly in Word.

I wonder if they will add a little more than the 9 sentences in Word 2010??

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The quick brown fox hasn't been buried yet - as the first reply in the thread DaveA linked to points out, you can use

=rand.old()

to create paragraphs full of quick brown foxes. And finally, there's

=lorem()

which generates the nonsense Latin "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..." often used by publishers as dummy text.
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HansV wrote:And finally, there's
=lorem()
which generates the nonsense Latin "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..." often used by publishers as dummy text.
They should have a:
=lorem.english() for us englishmen who understandeth not the language of the gods.
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Even those who can read Latin don't understand the Lorem ipsum text - it's garbled Latin interspersed with nonsense words...
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