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= rand (200,99) gives a better result in MSWord 2007?

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Contributed by: Prashant on May 20, 2007  |  Comment

Do you use Microsoft Word? Have you ever tried this? Ok .. try this out once..

But at first lemme share a tiny shortcut to open MS Word. Go to Run and type winword and click Ok/hit enter. Well thats the way I start my MS Word app. Open a new Word document and type = rand (200,99) and hit enter. What did you get? Yup .. if you are using Office 2003 you will get this ..

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

repeated in 200 paragraphs, with each paragraph saying it 99 times. Since the sentence covers each and every character of the English alphabet, its presumably a built in macro to test out fonts for generating sample texts.

But surprisingly, if you use MS Office 2007, you wont get that result. Instead you will get a nice paragraph that starts with ..

On the insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document.

which is a kind of manual of exciting new features of Word 2007! An uninterrupted effort by Microsoft to popularize their product I guess :P .

BTW, lemme share one more MS Word trick with you ..

How to change a selected text to all caps, small caps in MS Word?

Well herez the trick for you: Select the text you want to change and press SHIFT + F3 key. Press again. And again .. Enjoy!





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November 27, 2007
PENIX - SF, CA

It’s useful to have a text generation utility, but why call it “rand”? “=rand()” happens to be the random number function in Excel.

December 02, 2008
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