If you have Word document, type in this there.
= rand (200,99)
Press Enter and wait 3 seconds.
Weird.
Damn, that’s funny.
That’s exceedingly odd…:eek:
I love Easter Eggs.
Then again, it really doesn’t take much to amuse me! 
Woah…how’d you find that out, Anniz?
Yeah??!
Wow… That’s weird. What did you get? I got a Swedish sentence
repeated for 490 pages. I wonder what it does in other languages…
Swedish? Wow. I should try it on a Hungarian computer. Hmmm.
Anyhow, in English it’s “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs” - a sentence which is known from typing classes as having all the letters of the English alphabet in it.
http://www.eastereggs.com is a good site to find these sorts of things. The other famous Word trick is this:
Open up a new doc. type “BLUE” in caps. Bold the word and make it blue. Put a space after it. Go to the “About Word” menu and click on the Word icon.
Voila.
I remember the Commodore 128 used to have an Easter egg in its system, too. You’d type SYS ???,123,45,6 and some line of text would appear on your screen. Has anyone ever done this? I’d like to refresh my memory.
OK,
I tried the blue thing - I’m not sure it worked.
What was supposed to happen?
Tyklfe, you should have gotten a crude pinball game to appear (I think the “Z” and “M” keys control the flippers). What version of Word are you using? I know it works in Word 97.
Heehee. I used to do Word support, and when we were trying to walk someone through formatting something, rather than do it on their document, we’d use the =rand thing to generate some text to work with. It always astounded people.
Doesn’t work in Word 2000 (part of the MS Office suite). 
This one’s even better (copied and pasted from what is the greatest easter eggs site I’ve seen - http://www.eeggs.com) Load up Excel 97 and…
- On a new Worksheet, Press F5
- Type X97:L97 and hit enter
- Press the tab key
- Hold Ctrl-Shift
- Click on the Chart Wizard toolbar button
- Use mouse to fly around - Right button forward/ Left button reverse
There’s a couple of cool things in there, like a screen with credits rolling on it and a small lake with waves…
I tried and it doesn’t do anything in Word 2000. Guess they took it out of the new version.
I’m not Anniz, but I was with her when she found it on the IMDB message boards, her other home.
She’s asleep now, but she went to bed thinking this thread died in the morning. She’ll be pleased to see it come back to life. 
I got an email (forward) which told us all to try the exact same thing.
After playing around a bit, I discovered what Rasa alluded to. (Er, … “that to which Rasa alluded.”)
= rand (1) is the same as (1, 5). (Must be the default…)
= rand (1, 1) generates the stock sentence once.
= rand (1, 2) generates the stock sentence 2 times, 2 spaces between sentence, no breaks. This can be extended by replacing the y in the x, y pair to produce the sentence y times.
= rand (2, 1) generates the stock sentence 2 times, with each sentence on a seperate line. This can be extended by replacing the x in the x, y pair to produce the sentence x times on x lines.
The above two exampls can both be extended such that = rand (x, y) will generate x number of lines, with y sentences on each line. (This quickly generates the appearance of the sentence repeating x*y times.)
Thusly, = rand (200,99) will generate the target sentence 19,800 times.
But then, y’all probably knew that already, huh?
Crazy. I’ve got Japanese Word and the sentence that comes up says “Word is the most used word processor on the internet.”
About a kabillion fuckin times, too.
Maybe I’m easily amused, but that was hella cool. I was like “woahh”…heh.
Whoa. That “blue” thing crashed my whole system. Guess it was neat while it lasted…