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Some fun with MS Word
« on: 16 December 2005, 14:23 »
Start Word, type this:

=rand (200,99)

and then press enter.
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Re: Some fun with MS Word
« Reply #1 on: 16 December 2005, 14:35 »
that's hardly random.
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Re: Some fun with MS Word
« Reply #2 on: 16 December 2005, 23:51 »
That's been around for years.  Even works in Word for Mac.
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Re: Some fun with MS Word
« Reply #3 on: 17 December 2005, 01:45 »
Moved to apps.

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Re: Some fun with MS Word
« Reply #4 on: 18 December 2005, 22:15 »
it doesn't work in openoffice.org writer.
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Re: Some fun with MS Word
« Reply #5 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)?
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Re: Some fun with MS Word
« Reply #6 on: 18 December 2005, 23:13 »
For those of us that happen to not have Microsoft Word installed, what exactly is supposed to happen?
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Re: Some fun with MS Word
« Reply #7 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. :)


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Re: Some fun with MS Word
« Reply #8 on: 19 December 2005, 02:04 »
I believe it's some sort of easter Egg.

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Re: Some fun with MS Word
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: Some fun with MS Word
« Reply #10 on: 19 December 2005, 05:07 »
It looks like a built in way to create very large documents. Probably for testing purposes, like benchmarking.
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