You can add placeholder text to a document if you need to design the document layout, but you are not sure what your final text will say. This video shows how to add placeholder text in your default language or in Latin, also known as Lorem Ipsum.
- [Instructor] Sometimes you're writing a document…and you want to start by designing the layout,…but you don't have the final text…that you want for the document.…In cases like that, you can have Word…plug in some placeholder text temporarily…until you're ready to replace it with your final text.…So I'm working on this recipe document.…I have the ingredients and the recipe steps, but I want…to have an introduction paragraph in the beginning.…I don't know what I'm going to write for that intro yet.…I just need some placeholder text…to fill that space for now, so I've got a few options.…I'm going to type in a specific string of text,…equals r-a-n-d, open parenthesis, close parenthesis,…and then I'll hit Return,…and that just drops in some placeholder text.…
Pretty useful, but at first it looks…like you don't have control over how much text it drops in.…But that's what those parentheses are for.…So lets undo what I just did there, backing up a little bit,…and I still have the r-a-n-d and the parentheses, but inside…
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12/10/2018- Disabling the Start screen
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- Compressing pictures to decrease file size
- Locking a document to restrict editing
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