Any Ideas?
 

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

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/

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.

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

Nothing sexier than a smart man :)

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!

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...

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

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

CasperTG