THIS IS WICKED!!!!!!!!!!

[JayMan]

Check this out everyone, open up your favourite copy of M$ word and type the following:
= rand (200,99)

hit the enter key, and see what happens (depending on speed of PC depends how long it takes, took nothing on mine, took 30secs on works PC).

Lemme know what ya reckon http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

JayMan

[Steve R Jones]

WD2000: How to Insert Sample Text into a Document (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q212/2/51.ASP)

[Graham]

jayman

173 pages of QBF in under 2 sec.

PIII 600 256M

G

[daverme]

129 pages of QBF in about 1 sec, maybe less.

Tyan Trinity 100AT S1590S
AMD K6-III 400
64 MB

[jad1097]

1 sec here also. Duron @910/140 256MB ram CL2

[NDC]

A sec here also. Dual P3 @900Mhz, 1GB RAM CAS2.

What the heck is that anyway??? Its 195 pages long! I'm not running an English version of MS Word, and it appears to be some kind of story or something. A bit difficult for me to understand since it's in a different language.... What does it say on the English version?

[Warthog]

212 pages in a split second.

PIII 800mhz, 384mb RAM

Why did I get the most pages? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

This is what it says, over and over again:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

LOL that's so random http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[NDC]

Is that all it said on the English version? Mine had a bunch of historical events. Looks like they took more time to make this one! LOL

[marc666]

198 pages in about asec also said the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

t-bird 800
256 mem

[mbarn]

158 pg's in 1 sc.
Got anymore to try?

Althon 500
128 mb crucial ram

[This message has been edited by mbarn (edited 04-07-2001).]

[Imperion1]

Had to try it a couple of times. I blinked.

235 Pgs in 1 sec.

T-bird 750@950
256mb Kingston Ram


[This message has been edited by Imperion1 (edited 04-07-2001).]

[zskillz]

I don't get it... could someone explain

-Z

btw.. i think this post is #500
woohoo

[Sixpac]

About > 1 nanosec....

Celeron 2x558mhz Abit BP6 with 385 mb ram.

[JayMan]

Well mine doe it instantly one i hit the enter (1Ghz Tbird @ 1.12Ghz).

I would try something else with it, but i don't word on here at the moment, **** harddisk died and i lost EVERYTHING! argh. Didn't have any backups of nothing yet. (not long had this computer, was gonna be backing up everything next week!!!!! grrrr).

Incase ya can't tell i'm not real happy.

JayMan

[tazman]

Wild! Nanosec with an 800 Athalon 640 mg ram.

[mind245]

that sentence is one used which uses every letter of the alphabet. there are a couple others but that's the most common. it's useful for seeing how a font looks.

[Dovaka]

212 pages about 2 seconds in ms word 2000 on my pos at work amazing

[[Neo770]]

Hey only got 1 page. about 1/2 a sec or less.

p3 600
512 ram

and you can change the numbers using 1,1 gives 1 line and 1 sentence.

[Dr_Watson]

i'm curious as to what the point of this is?

(it only takes about 1 second on my crappy 550mhz k6-2)

[krusty the klown]

211 pages in just over a sec.

Win/Word 2000, celery 600 @ 850.

[Lancelot2]

It has given you a copy of every font in your registry in South African??. Most systems have about 200 fonts or more

[Sweeper]

158 pages in 1 sec.
Pentium 166
Sweeper

[HomeYield]

I got 235 pages in between one to 2 seconds. Athlon 700MHz, 128 Mb ram. I've heard that there are all kinds of weird stuff like this throughout microsoft stuff. Like the flight sim. in Excel '97.

[Dr_Watson]

yeah, excel 2000 has 'spy hunter' in it...

i'm still curious as to what the point behind the quick fox whatnot... its not much of a benchmark or anything..

[deob197]

Dr_Watson: How do you start Spy Hunter in Excel 2000? Sounds like it could be a lot more fun than the stuff I'm doing at the mo!

Deo

[brainflame]

Dr_Watson!! HomeYield!! Tell us how. Please!!

[Imperion1]

I think that Sweeper has us all beat. He did run it on a Pentium 166.
And the point is just for **its and giggles.
I don't think it was meant to be anything close to a benchmark.

[HomeYield]

Brainflame,

I don't know how to do the one in 2000 but in Excel '97, use this link.
http://www.game-revolution.com/games/codes/pc/microsoft_excel97.htm

Its something but not much.

[HomeYield]

Also here is the link to do the spy hunter in excel 2000.
http://www.eggheaven2000.com/detailed/148.html

Pretty cool stuff.

[mjlcarguy]

235 pages in about 2 sec. 900 T-bird 256MB PC100.

[sharder8]

My 800 Athlon must be slow!!! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

158 pages of "the quick brown fox, etc." in less than 1 sec.

Harder

[BBA]

212 pages in less time than I could move the mouse to the bottom of the page.

Dual P3 650 320M ram.

[golfcart]

thought my k6-2 was gonna have a heart attack lol. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[captpete]

Instantaneous 220 pages in Verdana #10, normal template setup. PIII 733. Why the large discrepencies in total pages displayed amongst you all?

[JayMan]

Thank you Imperion1 for pointing out that i didn't do this as a benchmark, altho most people seemed to think that. I just done it since i thought it was pre t kewl. I think i might try it on my old pentium 133 and see how it goes! hehe see if i can beat sweeper http://www.sysopt.com/forum/redface.gif)

Captpete, i think the large discrepencies in total pages is from people using different fonts/sizes, or they havent used (200,99).

Anyways, i gotta get going, i'll probably post my p133 socre later

JayMan

[Raishe]

hey so is some one gonna help us out and let us know how to get to those games in excel. can't wait to show muh office mates

[poochieloo]

212 pages in 1 sec.

ThinkPad T20
700Mhz 128Megs Ram

[flash4master]

212 pages in an instant.
Tbird @ 900, 128mb Micron runnin @ 133

[sburns]

Try different numbers in the field such as = rand (200,1) and you get different patterns of the sentence.

[Imperion1]

Tried it on my computer at work.
P3 750 512mb ram.
And still running WinNT4 SP6.
The company I work for is so behind. The computer has the built for Windows 2000 sticker on it. I think Micron had Win2k installed on it because it also has the Product Key # for Win2k stuck on top of the case also.
Its a Micron Computer set up for CAD.

Took about a second just to pull up 135 pages.

My computer here at home was faster than that.
Of course my t-bird 750 runs better and faster than my work computer.

[brother cannon]

211 pages k-7 256 ram

[JayMan]

Alrighty, i just tested my Pentium 133 (no MMX). Done it in 5seconds. that was with (200,99) so no cheating done. Not a bad time i reckon, but still sweepers 1second on a p166 wins. (altho its probably got MMX which would be an advantage i think).

JayMan

[linux_guru]

211 pages in the blink of an eye ......

1 Gb Tbird
512 Mb Ram

[jman01pa]

212 in an instant

abit kt7a / T-bird 1000
256 mem

I understand this is probably an Easter Egg. what i want to know is how someone figured this out?

J http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[rh71]

212 pages
under 2 seconds
w/ Office XP

1GHz T-bird
Asus A7V

[Deanna_L]

The Answer from the Microsoft Knowledge Base as to what this is:

Q157373 - How to Insert Sample Text into a Document

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The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

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SUMMARY
Microsoft Word allows you to quickly insert sample text into a document. To do this, type =rand() in the document where you want the text to appear, and then press ENTER.

The inserted sample text appears similar to the following:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.¶

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.¶

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.¶
This feature is turned on by default, and is disabled when the Replace text as you type option is turned off. To turn this option on or off, click AutoCorrect on the Tools menu, click the AutoCorrect tab, and then click to select or clear the Replace text as you type check box.

To view the paragraph marks (¶) in your Word document, do one of the following:
On the Standard toolbar, click Show/Hide (¶).

-or-


On the Tools menu, click Options. On the View tab, click to select the All check box, and then click OK.


NOTE: Word will not insert sample text when the insertion point immediately follows either a PAGE BREAK or a COLUMN BREAK.

MORE INFORMATION
By default, the sample text contains three paragraphs, with each paragraph containing five sentences. You can control how many paragraphs and sentences appear by adding numbers inside the parentheses.

The =rand() function has the following syntax

=rand(p,s)
where p is the number of paragraphs and s is the number of sentences that you want to appear in each paragraph.

Examples:
=rand(1) inserts one five-sentence paragraph of text

=rand(1,1) inserts one one-sentence paragraph of text.

=rand(1,2) inserts one two-sentence paragraph of text

=rand(2) inserts two five-sentence paragraphs of text

=rand(2,1) inserts two one-sentence paragraphs of text

=rand(10) inserts 10 five-sentence paragraphs of text

=rand(10,1) inserts 10 one-sentence paragraphs of text

=rand(10,10) inserts 10 ten-sentence paragraphs of text

NOTE: When you omit the second number, the default is five sentences of text. The maximum number that can be used inside the parenthesis is 200 (this number may be lower depending on the number of paragraphs and sentences specified).