MS Word

[PhilLew]

If you type =rand (200,99) into a blank word doc. and press return it does strange things.

1) why

2)are there any others

[Ethel]

What strange things? Seems normal to me.

What are you seeing?

[fo3nix]

I think it's just some function the Word developers built-in for testing purposes. Useful if you want to create a page of stuff quickly.

Search google for Word Easter Eggs.

[the_gooner]

did it with me
typed up 225 pages of
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

WHY????

[fo3nix]

It's a classic pangram, used as I say for testing purposes.

[198x]

It's a way of quickly entering sample text into a document. You can read about it on Microsoft's Support website.

Each paragraph contains five sentences. You can control how many paragraphs and sentences you want by adding numbers inside the parentheses :

From (1,1) to (200,99) - the first number being the repetition and second the number of times in a row


For other things MS Word related - http://www.eeggs.com/tree/558.html

[atoach]

it only works if the 'replace text as you type' function in Autocorrect is enabled.

[PhilLew]

Thanks all,

You learn something new every day, as they say!