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Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 
-Open up microsoft word.
-Create a new document.
-Type: =rand(200,99) and push enter.
 

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Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
 
"Kinda cool" in the sense that it automatically does something you'd rarely want to do on your own . . . ever.
 

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Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
 
I'm not sure what just happened, but I got this:

quote:

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En god stil må først og fremst være klar. Den må være passende. Aristoteles.

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over and over again for 267 pages.
 

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Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
Wow.

Typing =rand(1,1) is a little tamer.
 

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Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
 
Really St. Yogi? I got "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" over and over.
 

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Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
That's actually a pretty cool feature. I didn't know Word did greek text like that.
 

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Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
 
"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.
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
I had "Servez à ce monsieur une bière et des kiwis" over and over.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
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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Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
Wise words from the back of a Lillois café.
 

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Posted by John Van Pelt (Member # 5767) on :
 
(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
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
It's the text I can see when seeing an exemple of a font, too.
 

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Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
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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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
I guess it shows all letters ?
 

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Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
 
Oui.
 

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Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
Yup. I'm surprised that your sentence in French doesn't show all the letters.
 

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Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
 
mine says:

quote:

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

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