off: interesting

[Frank Dulk]

TRY:
Open the Word

Write
=rand (200,99)

Type (enter) and wait 3 seconds.

Who knows somebody gets to explain this...
Things of the computer science.

 

[Frank Dulk]

Will it be that was not of own Microsoft?

Intresting... my guess is that it was left by a playful programmer to test
some parts of the program.

--
Victor Delgadillo MS-MVP Access
Miami, Florida

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[Frank Dulk]

for the that I read it was
test that the personnel of the development team left in the Word. The
sentence
original, in English, it is
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
that is the smallest sentence than they know with all the letters of the
alphabet. but the idea would be to have all the letters of the alphabet ".

 

[Victor Delgadillo]

Intresting... my guess is that it was left by a playful programmer to test
some parts of the program.

 

[Victor Delgadillo]

Non-Microsoft? I don't think so... because I can't see anybody from the
'outside' inserting something in the source at the Microsoft CD mastering...
It's on everybody's installation... which means it was on the master disk,
not as an attachment added later.
It's a nice way to test a printer... if you need a lot of pages written...

--
Victor Delgadillo MS-MVP Access
Miami, Florida

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[John Vinson]

TRY:
Open the Word

Write
=rand (200,99)

Type (enter) and wait 3 seconds.

Interesting indeed!

Try just

=Rand()

Rand(1) seems to return three lines, Rand(2) returns 6, Rand(3)
returns 9.

 

[Van T. Dinh]

Rand(X,Y) gives X paragraphs with Y sentences in each
paragraph. Default for X & Y are 3.

Cheers
Van

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

TRY:
Open the Word

Write
=rand (200,99)

Type (enter) and wait 3 seconds.

Who knows somebody gets to explain this...
Things of the computer science.

I saw a discussion of this in Woody's Office Watch back in May. You get
different sentences in different languages.

 

[John Vinson]

I saw a discussion of this in Woody's Office Watch back in May. You get
different sentences in different languages.

Da sto v'i govoritye...

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

Da sto v'i govoritye...

Showoff! What's that mean? Babelfish only gives me "Yes, one hundred
v'i govoritye".

 

[Brendan Reynolds \(MVP\)]

The sentence 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' is an old,
frequently used (in English) touch-typing exercise. It was probably
originally used for that purpose because it exercises all fingers of both
hands.

 

[John Vinson]

Showoff! What's that mean? Babelfish only gives me "Yes, one hundred
v'i govoritye".

It's just misspelled (I don't know the proper Anglicization) for the
Russian phrase "well, what do you say" which is the phrase equivalent
to "well, how about that!"

 

[Joan Wild]

The is one of many 'Easter Eggs'. Have a look at

http://www.eggheaven2000.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=Word&thiscat=Applications&Submit=Search+>>
for other ones in Word.

There are a bunch for Access as well

http://www.eggheaven2000.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=access&thiscat=&Submit=Search+>>

What's an Easter Egg?....
http://www.eggheaven2000.com/additional/faq.html

 

[Victor Delgadillo]

It contains all of the letters of the US alphabeth too.

--
Victor Delgadillo MS-MVP Access
Miami, Florida

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