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Word VBA >> weird

by Louise » Thu, 22 Jul 2004 06:13:17 GMT

Hi

I've noticed that if you type =rand() in Word, you
get "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
repeated several times. Does anyone know why this happens
and if there are any other "funny" things?

Thanks

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Word VBA >> weird

by Jezebel » Thu, 22 Jul 2004 06:33:51 GMT


It's sometimes billed as an easter egg; but more likely it was left behind
by the programmers. Actually quite useful if you need a quick way to fill a
document with text to play with, though I wish they'd picked a more
interesting sentence. It takes two optional arguments:

=Rand(n,m)

one is the number of paragraphs you want, the other the number of sentences
per paragraph. (can't remember which is which)










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Word VBA >> weird

by DA » Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:31:53 GMT

As Jezebel already mentioned it's an easter egg.
There are a few others depending on your Word version.

Check http://www.eggscentral.com/applications/index.html
for details.

Dennis
happens

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weird

by Jay Freedman » Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:34:33 GMT




See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/DummyText.htm.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org



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