Beyond

Here’s another weird Windows experiment for you to try in your spare time:-

If you’re running Microsoft Word 2007; open Microsoft Word 2007 and type the following:

=rand (200, 99)

Now press ENTER.

If you’re running Microsoft Word 2003 or earlier; open Microsoft Word and type the following:

=rand.old (200,99)

All of a sudden a load of text has appeared: More Windows magic?

You ain’t seen nothing yet: Let’s try again in a foreign language:

Open Microsoft Word 2007 again and type the following:

=lorem (200,99)

Press ENTER.

(You may have seen this text associated with some third-party aspect of WordPress also perhaps?)

(Unfortunately for users of Word 2003 or earlier, =lorem … only works in Word 2007, or so I am led to believe.)

Crazy Glitch ( Type In =rand(200,99) In Mircrosoft Word - Click here for the funniest movie of the week

What’s going on here?

The rand() or =rand.old function in Microsoft Word specifically generates (random) text. The text that it generates may vary from version to version: In Word 2003 and older versions the text produced is different to that produced by 2007

The first number  inside the brackets is the number of paragraphs of text to generate. The second is the number of lines in each paragraph.

See the following Microsoft help and Support article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=212251 .