On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:13:54 +1200
Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:45:50 +0200
> Cor Nouws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Robin,
> > 
> > Robin Laing wrote:
> > 
> > >> For testing/demonstration, I would like to have two spreadsheets
> > >with > large amounts of data.
> > >> - One with general data, for making charts,
> > >> - Another with names, addresses and so on, for other stuff.
> > >>
> > > In the past I just created these either using formulas or random
> > > data.
> > > 
> > > For names and addresses, I use a database.
> > > 
> > > There may be a way to write a formula to create random letters to
> > > fill cells with stuff that would look like your address data.
> > > 
> > > Getting copies of data may be a problem due to privacy issues.
> > 
> > Yes of course.
> > I did type some "Mrs Applejuice at MelonStreet 2" - data.
> > But that is rather boring after a while ;-)
> > So it is dummy-data that I'm interested in.
> > 
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > Cor
> > 
> 
> Copy and paste, paste... paste, from something like this:
> http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
> 
> For random data search 'word list' or copy and paste aspells wordlist
> which is plain text.
> 

I also searched 'random filetype:csv' and come up with this as top hit
http://www.sfei.org/cmr/data/birdeggtables/CISNET_Egg_te.csv

cheers

-- 
Michael
 Those that can, do; those that can't, teach.

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