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  Oct 12 2006, 08:59 PM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 1,317 Joined: 11-January 06 From: Chennai, India Member No.: 16,932 myCENT:32.75  |
Open Microsoft Word 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007 and type =rand(200,99) this will create 567 pages of text. Is this a flaw or cheat in the software.
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Oct 12 2006, 09:27 PM
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Trap Double Mocha Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 2,258 Joined: 5-November 05 From: That one place over there... Member No.: 13,830 myCENT:26.44 |
That's really rather interesting. It might have been a macro someone used to test in Word when creating it. It may be an example for a Macro as well say for Visual Basic. It is rather intersting. I got a kick out of it. I wonder if there is anything else like that. I might have to do a search. I tried doing other numbers after random but nothing happened. It made my computer freeze for about 5 seconds and then all of a sudden it loaded.
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Oct 12 2006, 09:32 PM
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Ancient Enigma  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,837 Joined: 11-July 04 From: under the stars Member No.: 76 myCENT:80.62 |
 it's a rand function in word used to create dummy/sample text in a document. here's the explanation from microsoft knowledge base:http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=212251 some think of it as a "virus", especially to those unfamiliar with word. others label it as an easter egg. |
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 Oct 13 2006, 04:57 AM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 504 Joined: 15-August 06 From: Philippines Member No.: 28,387 myCENT:79.51 |
Hahah! That was fun. Although I think it might have been better or appeared more "professional" (I use the words loosely here), if they used the Lorem Ipsum text instead. After all, it has been the "standard" "random" text (again, terms applied loosely)
 Here, have a nice link, if you need it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum |
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Oct 13 2006, 05:43 AM
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apt-get moo Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,237 Joined: 28-May 05 From: Devon, England Member No.: 7,593  myCENT:20.88 |
There is a "code" on how it all works. The two numbers within the brackets represent the paragraphs and sentences you want. The first number dictates the number of separate paragraphs of text you want, and the second is the number of sentences in each paragraph. The maximums are 200 and 99, so they are always used when describing what Microsoft loosely term a "feature" (isn't that always the way with bugs?). I've used it for a while when I can't be bothered to go and generate some Lipsum I start putting the rand function in.
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Oct 13 2006, 06:16 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 8-May 06 From: London, England Member No.: 23,247 |
Well that's gotta be really cool, shame that it's only "The quick fox jumped over the lazy dog", the sentence that gives you ever letter of the alphabet. Why not truly random text?
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Oct 14 2006, 02:32 AM
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Legend Killer Group: Members Posts: 678 Joined: 15-April 05 From: Singapore Member No.: 5,697 |
Microsoft Office 2007 shows a different sentence to it... It repeated this many times...
QUOTE On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document. You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and other document building blocks. When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate with your current document look. You can easily change the formatting of selected text in the document text by choosing a look for the selected text from the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab. You can also format text directly by using the other controls on the Home tab. Most controls offer a choice of using the look from the current theme or using a format that you specify directly. To change the overall look of your document, choose new Theme elements on the Page Layout tab. To change the looks available in the Quick Style gallery, use the Change Current Quick Style Set command. Both the Themes gallery and the Quick Styles gallery provide reset commands so that you can always restore the look of your document to the original contained in your current template. It seems that its teaching you something instead of meaningless comment like the dog, but its not exactly useful for me... |
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Oct 14 2006, 02:40 AM
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$p4m 0n j00 $h4m3 m3 0nc3 $p4m 0n m3 $h4m3 m3 7\/\/1c3 Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 6,798 Joined: 21-September 04 From: 9r33|\| 399$ 4|\|D 5P4/\/\ Member No.: 1,218  myCENT:READY[102.80] |
QUOTE The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog I got 235 pages on 2003, But I do find that interesting surprised it was never brought up last semester in this computer class I was taken for word. |
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Apr 1 2007, 05:56 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 167 Joined: 31-January 07 From: New Zealand Member No.: 38,062 |
Interesting, I got a little thrill out of it  .I'm using Word 2002 (or so the About box says) and I got 235 pages of: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog....." How did you find this out? Google? Imagine accidently pressing Print. You could of course turn off the printer or cancel the print job, but imagine if you didn't realise you had clicked it and it was a remote or network printer. Hehe |