Hi, on my travels over the net i have came accross something really weired. Open up word and type this in =rand (200,99) Then click enter. See what happens. Strange!
It reminds me of that scene in the shining (my favourite movie). I wonder why Mr Gates chose to include this on his software as it seems to work on all versions of word. I wonder if there are any others.
If you alter the number in the brackets, then the number of times the sentence is repeated also changes. Jimbob
It's just some sort of testing routine, no doubt. Many programs contain such things. Of course, there are also easter eggs in programs, but this really isn't the same thing. Firecat, your last post was removed as that is something totally different, as well as in bad taste and political. By the way, that was just font substitution, which you can easily do by starting with the target string in whatever font and reversing it. So let's leave those type of things off this board.
Guys, If you want to see easter eggs for anything including Microsoft Office, Games, Hardware and Software in general...Please visit http://www.eeggs.com Best Regards, Firecat
It is an Internal VBA functions used to display sample text. All MS Office products have built in VBA/VB-Scripting features. The sentence used (Quick brown fox...) is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet. MORE INFORMATION By default, the sample text contains three paragraphs, with each paragraph containing five sentences. You can control how many paragraphs and sentences appear by adding numbers inside the parentheses. 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. Examples: =rand(1) inserts one five-sentence paragraph of text =rand(1,1) inserts one one-sentence paragraph of text. =rand(1,2) inserts one two-sentence paragraph of text =rand(2) inserts two five-sentence paragraphs of text =rand(2,1) inserts two one-sentence paragraphs of text =rand(10) inserts 10 five-sentence paragraphs of text =rand(10,1) inserts 10 one-sentence paragraphs of text =rand(10,10) inserts 10 ten-sentence paragraphs of text Note When you omit the second number, the default is five sentences of text. The maximum number that can be used inside the parenthesis is 200 (this number may be lower depending on the number of paragraphs and sentences specified).
It's not there to test the software, it is there for users to test formatting and fonts/sizes/colors/etc..
