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Old May 27th, 2004, 07:52 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Anyone have the Microsoft Word software? I have a question.

Got this e-mail today....But i don't have word.

What happens?




"If you have the program "Microsoft Word" on your computer, you can do this.

Not even Bill Gates can explain this one.
Try this,
Open a Word document and type the following:
=rand(200,99)
Press Enter and wait 3 seconds...
Microsoft is looking to reward anyone who can explain it."
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Old May 27th, 2004, 08:10 PM   #2 (permalink)
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i tried it.

it prints about 200+ pages of "the quick brown fox. . ."

i'm guessing it was embedded by the authors of word.

why, we can only guess.
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Old May 27th, 2004, 08:17 PM   #3 (permalink)
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It's an easter egg.

Programmers are famous for sticking stuff like that in their projects.
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Old May 28th, 2004, 12:13 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I tried changing the numbers and it still works... the first number is number of paragraphs and the second is the number of times the sentence is repeated in each paragraph
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Old May 29th, 2004, 10:34 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Ther are alot of these easter eggs, I remember there was one(too bad I foudn ut about thsi afte rI upgraded from 9'97(I think) to 2000) Where in ecel you could type in certain codees and a game would show up. But Microsoft apparentlky removed all the game easter eggs because of too much bulk.

does anybody know anymroe easter eggs?
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BUMP these easter eggs are needed by me
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