Plenoptic

Oct 12 2006, 09:27 PM

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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serverph

Oct 12 2006, 09:32 PM

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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salamangkero

Oct 13 2006, 04:57 AM

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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Matt2

Apr 1 2007, 05:56 AM

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

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The =rand() function has the following syntax
=rand(p,s)
where p is the number of paragraphs and s is the number of sentences that you want to appear in each paragraph.

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 .

QUOTE

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

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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scan06disk

Apr 12 2007, 09:44 AM

QUOTE(scan06disk @ Apr 12 2007, 07:13 PM)

hahahah the rand command loool i did tht to my friends maths assignment and he didnt kno the undo key and he sat there deleting every line how stupid was tht

OMG admin some oone can u delete this post as it was a mistake reply twice lol soory

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scan06disk

Apr 12 2007, 09:43 AM

hahahah the rand command loool i did tht to my friends maths assignment and he didnt kno the undo key and he sat there deleting every line how stupid was tht

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galexcd

Apr 8 2007, 05:06 PM

QUOTE(seez @ Apr 1 2007, 07:39 AM)

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!!

Oh and q33 isnt the name of any of the planes that went down on 9/11... idiot

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