Step-By-Step: Find Software Easter Eggs

By Stan Miastkowski, PCW Print Feb 27, 2003 1:00 AM

Microsoft Word: Dummy Text

A simple programming language comes built into Microsoft Word. One Word Basic command can fill a page with dummy type.

Start a new document.
Type =rand(x) in which x is a number from 0 to 200.
Press Enter, and you'll see the sentence "The quick brown fox jumped over the fence" repeated five times per paragraph in x number of paragraphs.

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