Some fun with MS Word

[cahult]

Start Word, type this:

=rand (200,99)

and then press enter.

[Calum]

that's hardly random.

[WMD]

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

[Canadian Lover]

Moved to apps.

[Calum]

it doesn't work in openoffice.org writer.

[Aloone_Jonez]

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

[piratePenguin]

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

[MarathoN]

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.

[KernelPanic]

I believe it's some sort of easter Egg.

Shit the bed.

[WMD]

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.

[toadlife]

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