I posted:

Anyone seen this? Not even Bill Gates can explain this one! Try this: Open a word document and type: = rand (200,99) Press Enter and wait for 3 seconds….

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Responses:

Hi Rowland,

This Word phenomen is actually a training feature used by Word teachers to fill up doc with random text – useful to show formatting etc. Syntax: =rand(n,m), where n is number of paragraphs and m is no. of repetitions of sample text per paragraph. Try =rand(2,5) to see how it works.

BTW: Sample text varies in national versions of Word and tries to contain all letters of the alphabet.

Polish version below – I hope it won’t stuff your monitor 🙂 Pchn ¹ ¦ w t ª  ³ ³dŸ je ¿a lub oÅ“m skrzy ± fig. [Push in this boat a hedgehog or eight crates of figs.]

Would be interesting to get input from French, German etc readers.

Regards,

Paul

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More responses:

Try varying the numbers also… 200 is the number of pages. Funny thing though 🙂

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If I wanted to put the text = rand (200,99) into a word doc, how would I do it? (not the output)

Response:

You can do it by using: Insert / Symbol / Special characters / Em Space / Return

…….. if you really want to!

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And another:

Not even Bill Gates can explain this one!

Oh yes he can…

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/DummyText.htm

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It’s for inserting ‘Sample Text’ into a document.

The =rand() function has the following syntax =rand(p,s)

where p is the number of paragraphs and s is the number of sentences that you want to appear in each paragraph.

I think he explains it quite well in Knowledge Base Article Q212251.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q212/2/51.ASP&NoWebContent=1