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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: cahult on 16 December 2005, 14:23

Title: Some fun with MS Word
Post by: cahult on 16 December 2005, 14:23

Start Word, type this:

=rand (200,99)

and then press enter.

Title: Re: Some fun with MS Word
Post by: Calum on 16 December 2005, 14:35

that's hardly random.

Title: Re: Some fun with MS Word
Post by: WMD on 16 December 2005, 23:51

That's been around for years.  Even works in Word for Mac.

Title: Re: Some fun with MS Word
Post by: Canadian Lover on 17 December 2005, 01:45

Moved to apps.

Title: Re: Some fun with MS Word
Post by: Calum on 18 December 2005, 22:15

it doesn't work in openoffice.org writer.

Title: Re: Some fun with MS Word
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 18 December 2005, 22:26

I think it started in Word 97, dose it still work in the lates version (whatever it's called)?

Title: Re: Some fun with MS Word
Post by: piratePenguin on 18 December 2005, 23:13

For those of us that happen to not have Microsoft Word installed, what exactly is supposed to happen?

Title: Re: Some fun with MS Word
Post by: MarathoN on 19 December 2005, 01:34

Quote from: piratePenguin

For those of us that happen to not have Microsoft Word installed, what exacly is supposed to happen?

I was going to ask the same question, eventually, thanks. :)

Title: Re: Some fun with MS Word
Post by: KernelPanic on 19 December 2005, 02:04

I believe it's some sort of easter Egg.

Shit the bed.

Title: Re: Some fun with MS Word
Post by: WMD on 19 December 2005, 03:11

The "=rand" command does something, and the numbers are parameters.  For example:

=rand (4,3)

Will print the infamous sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." in four paragraphs with 3 sentences per paragraph.  (200,99) is 200 paragraphs, 99 times each.  The text is always the same.

Title: Re: Some fun with MS Word
Post by: toadlife on 19 December 2005, 05:07

It looks like a built in way to create very large documents. Probably for testing purposes, like benchmarking.