Can someone explain this?

[alfie]

In a new Word document, type:

= rand(200,99)

Press Enter and wait a few seconds.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

In a new Word document, type:

= rand(200,99)

Press Enter and wait a few seconds.

It looks like you found an Easter Egg, just in time for Halloween.

BTW I used Word 2002 other years versions may have other Easter Eggs.

 

[Rick Runyan]

My guess...

=rand is a function to generate "random" words, 200 is the number of words
per paragraph and 99 is the number of paragraphs to generate. (Or vice
versa; I'm not anal enough to count either. All I know is it created 235
pages of text on my system.)

Intended use: create temporary text with which to play with page, style,
font, etc formatting before actually inputing meaningful text.

Again, guesses!

Rick

 

[Paul Turner]

It is a hidden autotext entry (see Insert/Autotext). The numbers are the
number of times the entry is repeated.