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Hellfire - 29/9/05 at 09:52 PM

TYPE

= rand (200, 99)

into MS Word....

mangogrooveworkshop - 29/9/05 at 10:00 PM

I remember there was another easter egg for excel that gave you a flythru landscape.
cant remember the formula.

mangogrooveworkshop - 29/9/05 at 10:02 PM

Easter Eggs > Excel
Credits
Launch Excel and press F5. Type: x2000:|2000 and press Enter. Hold Ctrl + Shift. Click the Chart Wizard and enjoy the credits.
Game!
Open Excel and on the blank worksheet, click File > Save As and choose Save as web page. Click on Publish and Add interactivity and save the file with any name you like. Load the page with Internet Explorer and go to row 2000 Column WC. Highlight all of row 2000 and press Tab to make column WC the active column. Hold down Ctrl + Alt + Shift and click on the Office Icon. Use the arrow keys to drive your car. The "0" key to drop paint slicks. The space bar to shoot. The "H" key for headlights. Note: You need DirectX for this to work.

chrisg - 29/9/05 at 10:32 PM

God, I love this sort of thing - passes the day on when you're supposed to be working!

Cheers

Chris

mangogrooveworkshop - 29/9/05 at 10:42 PM

I am still working! Grave yard shift

Mr G - 29/9/05 at 11:00 PM

Well it does'nt work for me?

What version are you using?

Mine looks like this......


MikeRJ - 29/9/05 at 11:36 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
TYPE

= rand (200, 99)

into MS Word....


That's not actually an "easter egg" it's a defined function. It's purpose is to produce a chunk of text so you can adjust the layout of a document etc. before it's finished. The 200 is the number of paragraphs required, and the 99 is the number of sentences in each paragraph.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=212251

Alez - 30/9/05 at 06:37 AM

Can anyone tell me what the sentence is for the English version of Word? In the Spanish version, I'm getting a very weird sentence of some animal happily eating things?

Ben_Copeland - 30/9/05 at 06:52 AM

It says : . The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

donut - 30/9/05 at 07:15 AM

Yeah i get that spread over 141 pages!!!!

matt_claydon - 30/9/05 at 08:44 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Ben_Copeland
It says : . The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.


Which contains every letter of the alphabet, presumably so you can see what all the characters of the font you are using look like. I presume the spanish version also contains every letter.

andyps - 30/9/05 at 09:58 AM

The sentence is the one which typists used to use for training as it uses every letter. I have used the shortcut in the past when training people to use word - for those who are very slow on the keyboard it is a quick way to provide text to play around with the format - althoug i do tend to go for =rand(5,6) or similar....

Alez - 30/9/05 at 02:54 PM

Interesting. Our sentence is not a well known one like yours.. plus it doesn't have every letter at all.