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kaioshin00
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-Open up microsoft word.
-Create a new document.
-Type: =rand(200,99) and push enter.
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"Kinda cool" in the sense that it automatically does something you'd rarely want to do on your own . . . ever. [Wink]
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I'm not sure what just happened, but I got this:

quote:
En god stil må først og fremst være klar. Den må være passende. Aristoteles.
over and over again for 267 pages.
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Wow.

Typing =rand(1,1) is a little tamer.
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KarlEd
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Really St. Yogi? I got "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" over and over.
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That's actually a pretty cool feature. I didn't know Word did greek text like that.
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"En god stil må først og fremst være klar. Den må være passende. Aristoteles."

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"A good essay must first and foremost be clear. It must be fitting. Aristotle."

In Norwegian.

Bizarre. [Dont Know]
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Anna
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I had "Servez à ce monsieur une bière et des kiwis" over and over.
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TomDavidson
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In Word, the rand() function inserts stock typewriter text -- language-appropriate, obviously -- into a number of paragraphs, with a number of repetitions per paragraph, as defined by the digits inside the parens.
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Wise words from the back of a Lillois café.
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(x,y) where x is the number of paragraphs and y is the number of repeats per paragraph.

Where the actual text comes from I cannot figure. I got 'quick fox,' too. Maybe it's automatic with a certain language/locale/keyboard setting.

Edit: yeah, what Tom said [Smile]
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It's the text I can see when seeing an exemple of a font, too.
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Well, you DO know what the "quick fox" sentence represents in English, don't you?

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dumb question.
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I guess it shows all letters ?
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Oui.
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Yup. I'm surprised that your sentence in French doesn't show all the letters.
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mine says:
quote:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
and only goes on for 179 pages
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I tried changing the default language but it still comes up with the fox sentence. Im not sure how to get it to show other things.
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