When designing web pages or doing other types of page layout, it often desirable to populate pages with random text so that you can see how the text flows and looks on the page. The standard for random text is the so-called "Lorem Ipsum" text, which is random Latin text the use of which started in the 1500s.

If you are need of some random "Lorem Ipsum" text, there are web sites that can generate such text for you. One such example is: http://www.lipsum.com/. But if you have Microsoft Word 2007, you can now generate random text using Word. Just going into word and type the following on a line and hit Enter:

=lorem()

When you do this, the text will be converted into random Lorem Ipsum text that you can then cut and paste as you like. If you have more specific needs on the random text you are generating, you can pass two additional parameters to the lorem function; the first parameter being the number of paragraphs and the second parameter being the number of sentences in each paragraph. For example:

=lorem(5, 10)

Will generate 5 paragraphs of random Lorem Ipsum text where each paragraph has 10 sentences.