MS Office 2007 Easter Egg Thread

[Billb2]

In MS Office 2007 Writer, on a new clean page, type "=rand(200,99)" sans quotes and press enter. I havn't read all of it yet, but it looks like some kind of help/info file, and it's BIG!

 

[Billb2]

bump

 

[JonnyBlaze]

it seems to repeat this over and over

The AutoFormat feature in Word works behind the scenes to produce an attractive, easy-to-read document while you concentrate on the content. Word analyzes each paragraph to see how it's used in the document (for example, as a heading or as an item in a numbered list) and then applies an appropriate style for that item. Word also automatically formats Internet, network, and e-mail addresses as hyperlinks, applies bold or underline character formatting to text surrounded by asterisks or underscores, replaces two hyphens with a dash, and so on. When you share your documents with others, you can track changes to see exactly what additions and deletions they made. Then you can accept or reject their revisions one at a time or all at the same time. If reviewers return their changes in separate documents, you can merge all their revisions into a single document and then review them. If you want a record of changes made to a document, you can save different versions of a document all in the same document. By tracking changes in a document, you can make revisions to a document without losing the original text. When you track changes, Word shows changed text in a different color from the original text and uses revision marks, such as underlines, to distinguish the revised text from the original text. By default, Word underlines and changes the color of inserted text. It also includes a vertical changed line in the margin to the left of any changed text to help you locate changes in the document.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

this site makes sense of it. i guess thats been there for a while.


http://word.mvps.org/FAQS/Formatting/DummyText.htm

The Microsoft Knowledge Base article How to Insert Sample Text into a Document in Word [212251] explains the use and syntax of the function:

Microsoft Word allows you to quickly insert sample text into a document. To do this, type =rand() in the document where you want the text to appear, and then press ENTER.

The inserted text is that hardy perennial: ?The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,? which contains every letter in the English alphabet.

By default, the sample text contains three paragraphs, each containing five sentences. You can control how many paragraphs and sentences appear by adding numbers inside the parentheses, for instance:

=rand(3,4)

The first number is the number of paragraphs, and the second the number of sentences per paragraph. If you omit the second number, you get five sentences in each paragraph. So, for example:

=rand(3,4)

inserts three, four-sentence paragraphs, while:

=rand(10)

inserts ten, five-sentence paragraphs.

The maximum number for either parameter is 200 and may be lower depending on the number of paragraphs and sentences specified. For instance, if you specify 200 paragraphs, then the maximum number of sentences per paragraph you can specify is 99:

=rand(200, 99)

If you specify 200 sentences per paragraph, then the maximum number of paragraphs you can specify is 99.