Technical Instructional Pages (TIPs)
for California State University Students, Staff and Faculty
Most Commonly Asked Technology Questions
Creating Sample Text
Or, How do I create sample sentences and paragraphs in Microsoft Word so that I can getr the
formatting of the pages done ahead of time?
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Open a new Word document.
2. Type the following on the page:
=rand(6,7)
The 6 represents the number of paragraphs, and the 7 represents the number of sentences within each paragraph.
You can always change those numbers to something else.
3. Press the enter key on your keyboard. You sentences and paragraphs should appear.
4. Now you can do your formatting.
TIPs were created through a TIGERS (Technology Integration Grants for Educational Resource Sharing)
grant
from the California State University
Center for Distributed Learning (CDL).
Project Lead: Fred Fuld, CSU East Bay Concord Campus
Project Team Member: Marion Smith, CSU Dominguez Hills