Microsoft Word Trick

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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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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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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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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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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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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Microsoft Office 2007 shows a different sentence to it... It repeated this many times...



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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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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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

So if I typed =rand(500,4), there would be 500 paragraphs with 4 sentences inside each paragraph of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog..." Fun

It applies to: Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Word 2002 Standard Edition, Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition and Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition .



I tried to experiment with this so I typed in =rand(200,99) and then went into Find/Replace then I typed in: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." in the find box and then some Lorem Ipsum in the replace box. I then clicked on Replace All. I walked away for a few seconds because I thought it would take a while, but when I got back the "Sorry Word Encountered an Error" message was displayed, Word had to close So it was too much for poor little Word. Oh well - I tried.

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Here's a way cooler trick:

1. open Microsoft Word
2. Type Q33 (the name of the first plane in 9/11 that went down)
3. Change it to 48 font
4. Change it to Windings Font

See what you get!!

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