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A million dollar Easter Egg! Not Quite...

There has been a mail that goes on to say that there is a mysterious bug in Microsoft Word and no one in the product team knows why.

Before you guys put on your thinking caps, roll up your sleeves and jump into debugging.....GUYS! HOLD YOUR GUNS.

Apparently ( as per the explanation by my good friend Vinh Pham), this is just as Easter Egg. There are a lot others who believe this is a support tool to get in a lot of text into word.

Dont know what i am talking about??? Guys are you working on planet mars...arent you on your email??

Just Joking. There is this =Rand(x,y) that you can type into word and as you press enter..VIOLA...there is a huge amount of  “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” text that gets created for you...the mail asks you to type in =Rand(200,99) and suddenly your word document grows to mulitpages..with repeating text.

The explanation that i gathered suggest that this is the simplext way to fill up your document with a shit load of text ( apart from Ctrl+C;Ctrl+V off course!!).

So relax guys. =Rand(x,y) is equivalent to saying that type in x paragraphs with y sentences each! 

so it is equal to Rand(# of Paragraphs, # of sentences in each paragraph). Dont believe me..try out =Rand(1,2) and = Rand(2,1) and test it out for yourself!

Still dont believe me!!! Check out

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

:)


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# re: A million dollar Easter Egg!

Gravatar The sentence "A quick brown..." contains all the letters from A to Z. This is useful to test True Type fonts.

That's not an Easter Egg, is a hidden utility. 11/16/2004 2:40 PM | David

# re: A million dollar Easter Egg! Not Quite...

Gravatar This feature is even localized: the german version of word produces a similar all letters sentence : "Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern." 11/16/2004 5:43 PM | Igor Milovanovic

# re: A million dollar Easter Egg! Not Quite...

Gravatar Very clear description
It works! 12/30/2004 8:30 PM | pat

# re: A million dollar Easter Egg! Not Quite...

Gravatar thats not a bug , infact thats a hidden quality 3/18/2005 1:57 PM | sankalp

# French translation

Gravatar in french : Servez à ce monsieur de la bière et des kiwis.
"Serve this man beer and kiwis"

easter eggs are in the air !!! 3/27/2005 6:52 PM | tomcore

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