What's the use rand() function in Microsoft Word?

[Manisha]

Dear Developers,

..At present I am using Microsoft Office XP version .There is something
amazing happens with me.......that if I typed =rand(200,99) in Microsoft Word
and after Pressing an Enter key.....It displays "The quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog" and fills 235 pages of the document with the above
line..........I couldn't understand Why it happens?.....Can u help me in this
matter.

Plz reply me as soon as possible

Waitng for ur positive reply

 

[Jay Freedman]

Dear Developers,

.At present I am using Microsoft Office XP version .There is something
amazing happens with me.......that if I typed =rand(200,99) in Microsoft Word
and after Pressing an Enter key.....It displays "The quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog" and fills 235 pages of the document with the above
line..........I couldn't understand Why it happens?.....Can u help me in this
matter.

Plz reply me as soon as possible

Waitng for ur positive reply

Since no one discovers this by accident, I'll guess you got this off
some stupid web page that's trying to convince you it's a virus. Hint:
don't use such big numbers.

It's just dummy text that you can use to demonstrate formatting and
design. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/DummyText.htm.

 

[Ken McLennan]

G'day there Jay,

Since no one discovers this by accident, I'll guess you got this off
some stupid web page that's trying to convince you it's a virus. Hint:
don't use such big numbers.

I found it last night on a forum at techies.co.za, where the user
inquired about it in August 03. The member simply asked a question about
why it worked and didn't try to claim it was a virus. However that
simply pushes the question back a bit and didn't say where THAT person
found it.

An address of http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=157373 was given
for reference, but I don't think it's still there. Probably archived or
something.

You never know. I can see where it might be used, but I don't
think I'll ever really need it.

See ya
Ken McLennan
Qld, Australia

 

[Jay Freedman]

G'day there Jay,


I found it last night on a forum at techies.co.za, where the user
inquired about it in August 03. The member simply asked a question about
why it worked and didn't try to claim it was a virus. However that
simply pushes the question back a bit and didn't say where THAT person
found it.

An address of http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=157373 was given
for reference, but I don't think it's still there. Probably archived or
something.

You never know. I can see where it might be used, but I don't
think I'll ever really need it.

See ya
Ken McLennan
Qld, Australia

Hi Ken,

Microsoft went on one of their periodic "let's reshuffle the
KnowledgeBase" rounds. The article is now at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=212251. A similar article for Word
98 for Macintosh is at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=180685.