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by kn_abhilash

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if i go to microsoft word and type

=rand (200,99)
and press enter
179 pages are filling with "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

why it is happning, can any one tell me

thanks in advance

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by ann777

This is an "Easter Egg" -- one of the hidden commands to activate a hidden feature of an application. There are many different "Easter Eggs" for many applications...

See the below for more info:

http://www.eggscentral.com/

by firstpeter

It's actually not a bug - it's designed to allow you to test your fonts and such without having to create paragraphs of text on your own.

I believe the format is: =RAND(paragraphs, sentences). So =RAND(200,99) would give you 200 paragraphs of 99 sentences each.

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