Re: Bug or just having fun in Word

["Juan M. Courcoul" <courcoul () campus qro itesm mx>]

Y'all might enjoy visiting:

        http://www.eeggs.com/

and, yes, this "feature", aka 'insert Sample text', is listed there.

Cheers,

J. Courcoul

Jim Goltz wrote:
> >       > = rand (200,99)
>
> > I would guess that this is probably a left-over from the initial testing and
> > debugging.
>
> "How to Insert Sample Text into a Document"
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q157/3/73.asp
>
> Given that Microsoft documents it (albeit obscurely), I seriously doubt that they are paying anyone to tell them how 
> and why it works.
>
> What I want to know is, why does everyone always type "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" (34 letters) and 
> not "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" (30) or even "Glyphs cwm fjord-bank vext quiz" (26 letters)?