Any Ideas?

[dm383]

One for the Tech-heads amongst us!!!


Not even Bill Gates can explain this one!
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> Try this:
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> Open a New Word document and type = rand (200,99)
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>Press Enter and wait 3 seconds...
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> Microsoft will reward anyone who can explain it.



(Allegedly!;))

DM

[Sharni]

Hmmmmm...interesting indeed

[FussyPucker]

Well it seems to do nothing on Word 2000...
I know there's usualy something tucked away in office applications and other apps.......these are known as "easter eggs" you can find loads here - http://www.eeggs.com/

[jseal]

dm383,

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but this is a built in feature of Word.

The basic idea's pretty cool. Open any document, in any version of Word - even Word for the Mac! - and on a new line type

=rand(10)

then hit Enter. Word will create ten paragraphs, each paragraph consisting of five sentences of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The original Word developers - I'm talking about Word for Windows 1.0 here - built this into Word so it would be easy to create a quick document, so they could test it.

In general "=rand(x)" will produce "x" paragraph, each with five sentences of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

There's a second form:

=rand(4,8)

which creates four paragraphs each with eight identical sentences: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Three weeks ago, I suggested you use =rand(10,10) to create ten paragraphs with ten sentences in each. That's more or less the size of a page. =rand(100) will give you 100 paragraphs each with five sentences, which occupies about 7 pages.

What about other languages? Each language version of Word has it's own phrase, not a translation of the fox and dog sentence. Like the English version, the foreign versions are normally a sentence that uses all the letters in the alphabet.

[jennaflower]

wow... you fellas always impress me with your intelligence :)

Nothing sexier than a smart man :)

[BigDanRTW]

its funny tho, because i remember in keyboarding class in Middle School we always had a speed test in which we had to type that sentance as many times as we could, damn this would have come in handy then!

[jseal]

Gentlefolk,

It is interesting to note however, that I screwed up. I had worked with a couple of the staff on just this subject back in March, and had replied to one of their subsequent emails. When I saw dm383’s post I said “Ah Hah!”, pulled my response out of the sent mail, and popped it into a reply – without editing it. I added the summary about the foreign languages, hit “Submit Reply”, and casually looked at “Three weeks ago, I suggested you use…”

Sorry, I gotta remember to edit...

[dm383]

jseal; that was sent to Celticangel by a friend.... who passed it to me, cos she doesn't have Word!! Interesting thing to do, on Microsofts part though.... I kinda figured there'd be a reason for it somewhere, just needed "A man who knows" to explain!! TYVM :)

DM

[Casperr]

So do you all get the reward from Microsoft now???? ;)

CasperTG