Magic Tricks with MS Word/Notepad
February 26, 2008 by Jerome Locson
Filed under Computers
Guys, try this one… Just for fun and experimentation.
Over Yahoo! Messenger, my friend forwarded me a couple of tricks to do wit MS Word and Notepad and I would like to share this with you.
Trick #1:
Again this is something funny and can’t be explained… At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened!
It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself…
Open Microsoft Word and type =rand (200, 99).
And then press ENTER.
And see the magic!.
Trick #2:
For those of you using Windows, do the following:
1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.Noticed the weird bug? No one can explain!
I have tried both tricks and was entertaining… For the #1 trick, it will automatically populate your MS Word document with the phrases “The quick brown fox….“. Also, for an experiment try to change 200, 99 to any number you desire… like 2, 6.
For the second trick, when I re-opened it… the characters where in Chinese characters of which I do not know the meaning… Try it and share your comments.
Does Microsoft knows all these bugs/hidden tricks with their software? I wonder what’s their intension of putting such into this tools.
First one is interesting. nothing happen to me for the second trick. could it be your encoding setting?
Yes. If you have your system configured with Chinese character support, it will appear.
the first one didn’t work for me but when i did the second one it came up with a bunch of squares, still weird but you got Chinese letters…why didn’t I?
You should have installed international encoding character, specifically Chinese.
THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING…
how do i get a international encoding character
very good
when you are in notepad, type this in:
@echo off
:start
color 2
echo (whatever you want)
echo (whatever you want)
echo (whatever you want)
goto start
save this as EXAMPLE.BAT
the BAT will open the script in CMD.
try it!
#2 came up as
“[][][][][]”
without the quotes
the =rand(x,y) is use by the software developer to test the stability of the software, by generating specific number of words they can see how the software perform when reach certain number of pages, how the memory handling…and so on.. :)
haaaaaaaa
its really nice
thanku friend
this is the part i could translate its not much but its weird
畂 桳 栠 Morocco 琠 敨 reflects picks 獴
The tricks were superb,and i have made a brief research abt them. The second trick will work with any four words,seperated by spaces(dont press enter). The first word should contain 4 letters,the second and thirds should have 3 letters and the 4th one should have 5 letters.
How it works?
They have got some stinking reason for it,but i’m too weak to explain it.
I tried with writing 4 letters than 3 than 3 and at last 5, but it didn’t work in my computer
I TRIED THE FIRST TRICK, IT WAS A GO WAY OF WIRTING MORE WORDS AT A TIME AND THE SECOND TRICK APPEARED SOME WHAT LIKE THIS
[][][][][][]
Alright, #2
it is not that phrase, but a phrase with words with 4 3 3 5 letters in them
bush has 4 letters in it, hid and facts both have three, and facts has 5
try “four one six seven” or any phrase with that arrangement
you can use google translate, to translate the chinese characters whether or not you have language software installed, and it will change depending on the words you used
bush hid the facts- Mount Albert桳栠Ying琠敨mongoose seized
four one six seven- Led Jammu敮Buy猠disease猠硩湥
it cannot translate some characters because it may take a pair to make something recognizable. like, you couldnt try to translate Amer and ica seperately, they would have to be together to be coherent in the translate language
Yes, I have NotePad, but none of those tricks work because I don’t have “MS” Notepad, ’cause I can’t find anywhere to download it. :/
You did good. But I have seen it before.
In the =rand (#,#) I played around with it a little and discovered that when you push enter word types the sentence and then pushes enter. The first number determines how many times word will type the sentence. And the second number determines how many times word will push enter and before retyping the first number again. So 1,2 will give one sentence enter one sentence enter. While 3,2 will give 3 sentences enter, 3 sentences enter, 3 sentences enter.
The “Bush hid the facts” one is because the encoding for notepad thinks it should have a 4 letter word, then 2 three letter words and then another 4 letter word as a starting thing. That rand one is amazing.
woops not 4-3-3-4 but 4-3-3-5
Try putting in Q33N then put in font as wingdings. u will be surprised… ! I was.