Microsoft’s Rival for Google Docs

Microsoft has begun testing some Web-based Office applications that will be delivered through Office Live Workspace, its online adjunct to Microsoft Office, and will give the company a closer rival to online application suites such as Google Docs.
Microsoft will begin a public beta test of what it calls the “Office Web applications” later this year. [...]

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Generating random text – I

This works in any version of Microsoft Word… Just open up a new document, and then type in =rand() into the document:

 
And then hit enter.
Three paragraphs of text will be instantly added…

You can add more than 3 paragraphs by using the following syntax
=rand(paragraphs,sentences)
For instance, for 6 paragraphs of 20 sentences each, you would use:
=rand(6,20)

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Microsoft Web-Based Office Suite

Microsoft on Tuesday will give developers a preview of a hosted version of Office after more than a year of speculation about when the company would put its productivity suite on the Web to compete with Google Docs.
At the Professional Developers Conference on Tuesday, Microsoft will demonstrate a “lightweight” hosted version of Office, called Web [...]

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