open a blank word document...
type =rand(200,99) and press <enter>
even bill gates don't know bout this.. :D
does anyone knows other func that react just like this?
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open a blank word document...
type =rand(200,99) and press <enter>
even bill gates don't know bout this.. :D
does anyone knows other func that react just like this?
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 =
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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 "=".
You may want to move this gcc, I don't see how this is security related.
-NeuTron
heh, that's really cool
kewl
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
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
Yup....stuff like that is why the folks at M$ make "the big bucks".....
;)
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
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/DummyText.htmQuote:
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.