lorem ipsum, a set of nonsensical latin phrases used as a placeholder for text in a template, continues to show up in random places for me. recently i found out something interesting having to do with microsoft word 2007. there is a function, lorem(a,b), which will produce some lorem text placeholders. parameter 'a' is the number of paragraphs and 'b' is the number of sentences. to get this to work, type
=lorem(1,1)
anywhere in a word document and it automatically turns into this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
it appears the second parameter defaults to 3 if left blank, but the first parameter cannot be left blank.
