rand()

[David J]

I used to be able to create blocks of text made up of "the quick brown fox
.........."
repeated several times by entering =rand() , with or without entering
numbers inside the brackets. Now,
however, I am unable to get that facility to work.
I have tried to rectify the problem by deleting Normal.dot, and eventually
by reinstalling Word 2000, but still no success. I have also tried using
each of the other two types of bracket. Everything else in Word 2000 seems
to be OK.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Jezebel]

It's an intrinsic 'feature' so if you've got a proper installation it should
work. It has to be the first and only text in a new paragraph. The numbers
in the brackets are optional and specify the number of paragraphs and the
number of sentences in each paragraph.

 

[David J]

Thanks for your response. I've used the 'feature' on numerous occasions in
the past in the way you described. I reinstalled Word from the same MS CD as
I used initially 3 or 4 years ago. I can't understand why the 'feature'
fails to work now. As I said in my initial post every other feature in Word
seems to work perfectly.
Regards, David

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I think you're leaving out the equals sign. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/DummyText.htm

 

[Klaus Linke]

And "Replace text as you type" has to be checked in the AutoCorrect
options.

Regards,
Klaus

 

[David J]

"Replace text as you type" was unchecked. Checking it fixed the problem.
Thanks to all for their responses, and particularly to Klaus for the
solution.
Regards,
David