try this on your m$ word

[cyclops07]

open a blank word document...
type =rand(200,99) and press <enter>

even bill gates don't know bout this..

does anyone knows other func that react just like this?

[jaguar291]

LOL.. That's pretty cool... "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Whoever knew that the programmers at Microsoft had a sense of humor?!

= Cheers, jag291 =

[edit]

This got me so interested into Word that I actually did a search for this and found out that this function checks that all the letters show up from the English language (A-Z), otherwise I haven't found any other logical use for it.

For those who can't get this to work, you don't include the "type" before the "=".

[NeuTron]

You may want to move this gcc, I don't see how this is security related.
-NeuTron

[keezel]

heh, that's really cool

[NullDevice]

kewl

[Tim_axe]

Hidden functions such as this are known as Easter Eggs. There is a site that is dedicated to these ( http://www.eeggs.com/ ) and there are easter eggs for many different things.

I have seen the egg that is the topic of this thread, but I don't remember where. Also, in Internet Explorer, try "about:mozilla" instead of "about:blank"... But I don't know too much how this deals with security, unless you could exploit these eggs...

-Tim_axe

[GrApHiCTrOn]

it seemed fun and i had anything to do so i started changing the numbers and this were my results. they aren't complete but you get the idea.


=rand(200,99) 151 pages
=rand(200,98) 147
=rand(200,89) 136

=rand(200,01) 4 pages but its in 1 column
=rand(200,02) 4 pages in 2 columns
=rand(200,03) 8 pages
=rand(200,10) 19 pages

you get the idea

[allenb1963]

Yup....stuff like that is why the folks at M$ make "the big bucks".....

[avdven]

Geez... I ran that on MS Office Word 2003 (Beta 2 Tech Refresh) and it output 235 pages. Kinda overboard, don't ya think?

AJ

[the_JinX]

Like jokes, urban legends, and virus hoaxes, tips about Word’s little-used or undocumented features periodically makes their way around the Internet, occasioning a wave of postings in Word newsgroups. One of these is =rand(), which is sometimes represented as an Easter egg, sometimes feared as a possible virus. It is neither. It is a Word function (undocumented in the online Help but documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base) that can be useful in certain circumstances.

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/DummyText.htm