What the??????

[brother chris]

I got this in an email. I'm sure there is some explanation...but I don't know it yet. <br /><br />Open up "Microsoft Word" and type:<br /><br /><br />= rand (200,99)<br /><br />Press Enter and wait 3 seconds<br /><br /><br />Brother Chris.

 

[cpj]

Re: What the??????

FREAKY! I wanna know how it works.

 

[DJ]

Re: What the??????

No thank you.

 

[Dunaruna]

Re: What the??????

It's a quirky thing that the author hid inside the program. The nerds must have gotten bored.<br /><br />The question should be - how did you find out about it?<br /><br />There is a special name for stuff like that but I can't remember what it is. Same sort of thing can reveal hidden chapters in DVD's. Do a google search on a particular movie DVD, you'll be surprised what is hidden.

 

[QC]

Re: What the??????

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.<br /><br />Well alrighty then . . . Where's ee when we need him?

 

[sloopy]

Re: What the??????

= rand (200,99) <br /><br /><br />I know why :-D :-D

 

[EZLoader]

Re: What the??????

It's a standard MS Word function explained here...<br /><br /> http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/DummyText.htm

 

[brother chris]

Re: What the??????

Yeah, I figured it out too Sloopy. It took a couple minutes, but now it makes sense....sorta

 

[BoatBuoy]

Re: What the??????

Originally posted by Dunaruna:<br /> There is a special name for stuff like that but I can't remember what it is.

Easter Egg, but this really isn't one. It's simply an undocumented function, but documented in MS KB 212251.

 

[technostingray]

Re: What the??????

Originally posted by Dunaruna:<br /> It's a quirky thing that the author hid inside the program. The nerds must have gotten bored.<br /><br />The question should be - how did you find out about it?<br /><br />There is a special name for stuff like that but I can't remember what it is. Same sort of thing can reveal hidden chapters in DVD's. Do a google search on a particular movie DVD, you'll be surprised what is hidden.

Is the term you refer to embedded?