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Off Topics > Microsoft Word has a harmless bug

Kristjan
Senior Heliman
Location: Estonia, Tallinn

OK open up your MS word, start a new document and type in:

=rand(200,99)

Now press enter.
Don`t worry, it`s harmless.

Explanations are welcome.

K.

02-05-2004 Over year old.

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Ted Toth
Elite Veteran
Location: Myrtle Beach S.C.

Quote
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

HOLY shoot 235 pages and i hit print

You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stopped laughing.

02-05-2004 Over year old.

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Kino
Veteran
Location: Navan, Ireland

That can't be an accident I wonder what its there for

Why do we fear change, one of the two certainty's in life

02-05-2004 Over year old.

Siado
Senior Heliman
Location: Port Orchard, WA

Amazingly, this also works on the Mac version of Office...

02-05-2004 Over year old.

rickc
Elite Veteran
Location: Creve Coeur IL. (Peoria Area)

Makes you wonder how many other items are hidden.

Rick

02-05-2004 Over year old.

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shootist
Senior Heliman
Location: New York State, East Coast US

That's not a bug, that's known as an 'Easter Egg':
A little bit of insider programming humor.
There are many of them in Windows and Office- if you click on a certain symbol, while holding CRTL, Page Up and so on, you get a list of all the programmers, or their photos, or other stuff.

I don't have the "rand" Easter Egg on my old Word version.

02-05-2004 Over year old.

Graeme
Senior Heliman
Location: Jeffersonville, IN, USA

Now if I could just remember the keystrokes that used to work in Excel to bring up a spaceship-style flight sim...

02-05-2004 Over year old.

Preluder01
Heliman
Location: cincinnati, oh

there is a list of eggs here.

http://www.eeggs.com/

everything from software, movies, and books has them. pretty interesting site.

02-05-2004 Over year old.

Drunk Monk
rrProfessor
Location: Preston, UK

I don't think that's classed as an easter egg since it actually has a use. It's used to test word and printing functions without having to type loads of rubbish in. If you type =rand() you get a few lines of the same phrase, if you type =rand(200.99) then you get 235 pages of it, use lower numbers and you get less text.

Stephen

I only open my mouth to change feet.....

02-05-2004 Over year old.

NitroSpazzz
Veteran
Location: Wisconsin and/or Minnesota

Boy that would have been very helpfull in my stupid typing classes. The phrase the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog or whatever is used for testing typing speed. I guess it has every letter of the alphabet or something. That could have scared the teacher a bit. couple hundred pages worth in a minute

Blake Tennessen
507.279.3930

02-06-2004 Over year old.

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vitek
Key Veteran
Location: Corvallis, OR

02-07-2004 Over year old.

deckerv
Veteran
Location: Wellsville, NY

I use that command regularly when I want to test printers @ work... at least the =rand(75) command... Great for testing printers to see if they're still jamming or not

02-07-2004 Over year old.

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RotorX
Key Veteran
Location: London

I remember in Excel if you entered certain numbers into certain cells and hit return it would allow access to the game in Excel, you are like a heli controlled by the mouse, very sensitive, you are in a dark room and there is a light in the centre as you go towards it you see a headstone (like as in dead people have), when you finally get to the headstone it has the programmers names on it, dont remember the sequence, but i never seen that one before

02-07-2004 Over year old.

volare
Veteran
Location: Cincinnati Area

For Excel 97:

1. On a new Worksheet, Press F5
2. Type X97:L97 and hit enter
3. Press the tab key
4. Hold Ctrl-Shift
5. Click on the Chart Wizard toolbar button
6. Use mouse to fly around - Right button forward/ Left button reverse

02-07-2004 Over year old.

vitek
Key Veteran
Location: Corvallis, OR