Macfriend

Type this in a blank MS Word page:

=rand(200,99)

Then click enter.

Anybody can explain that?

SkyHook

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Sonal

It's amazing what you can find using Google.

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/DummyText.htm

In a nutshell, it's an undocumented feature in Word to quickly add dummy text.

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Got Mac?

Don't expect too much from Word, remember its made by Microsoft.

ArtistSeries

No, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" on 200 pages.


And this link http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/DummyText.htm
will not work with Safari. You get:
{Ah hem}* Due to a bug, Apple's Safari Browser can't open the majority of the pages on this site.* Safari version 1.2.2. (build 125.7) can open most of the pages if you click Refresh three or four times.* Any other browser (e.g. Firefox, see here) or Microsoft Internet Explorer will open them correctly.


Explanation


Any older version of Safari, or any other browser you have, will work just fine.* The site is written in absolutely standard HTML 4.0 against the public W3C DTD for HTML 4.0 Transitional.* It has no code that is specific to any particular browser.* However, due to limited resources (two volunteers who have day jobs maintain the entire site!) we test on Mac OS only with Microsoft Internet Explorer.* That's partly because Beth, who maintains the Mac section of the site using Mac OS X and DreamWeaver, prefers IE to Firefox.* (The web author for the rest of the site uses FrontPage and Firefox on both Windows and Mac).


Some have indeed suggested that this is a devious anti-Apple conspiracy by Microsoft!* Not quite: if anything, it's the other way around!** Nope:* It's a bug in Safari.* Safari closes the connection to the website before the complete content of a frames page has been downloaded.* I guess when they tested it in Cupertino, the Apple website coming down a megalink from the building next door worked very well.* For the rest of us, whether we successfully get a page depends on how quickly the Internet as a whole is running today.


Just to make this absolutely clear: There is no point in telling us that any given page on this site "does not work in Safari".* We know they don't.* Tell Apple.* They're not going to fix it, but tell them anyway!* We can do nothing about your complaint, so please do not send the* email.


Of course, should you feel like complaining about that, please feel free.* Many have {grin}.* Each complainant has been offered the same* opportunity to help, by re-coding a new version of every page on the site so that it works with Safari; and we'll make the same offer to you.* There is no pay for the job; you will have to provide all of your own tools, bandwidth and equipment, and probably no other user of the site will even notice.* As you may understand, we have not recently been overrun with people wanting to accept this offer, so it remains open should you wish to be the first!


All the best


John McGhie (Mac User and one of the people who maintains this site).

elmer

Tried it with a few different numbers. =rand(1,1) prints the sentence one time.

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