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Jun 28, 2005, 01:41 PM
 
Open a new Word document and type:

= rand (200,99)

then clic on enter. Wait several seconds and look again. What do you get?


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Jun 28, 2005, 01:48 PM
 
Cute. It does it for Rand as well. Oddly, enough = Randman (200,99) comes up blank.

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Jun 28, 2005, 01:50 PM
 
I use this shortcut all the time...
     
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Jun 28, 2005, 01:57 PM
 
Originally Posted by ManOfSteal
I use this shortcut all the time...

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Jun 28, 2005, 02:11 PM
 
don't know what the structure really is, but you can change the values and it will work.
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Jun 28, 2005, 03:28 PM
 
Originally Posted by Sarc
don't know what the structure really is, but you can change the values and it will work.
It's
Code:
= rand (# of lines, # of sentances per line)
     
   
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