weird facts about Microsoft Windows

[DiscoStu]

Why, has he got one?

Nothing excited him quite so much as quoting the latest swine flu figures for Brazil.

Maybe he had a Brazilian toyboy or something

[Paddy]

3. Open Microsoft Word and on the first line write : “=rand(200,99)” (without the quotes) and hit Enter.

It also works great on AutoCorrect. Choose a word and select =rand(200,99) as the correction. Great fun.

[Spacecadet]

3. Open Microsoft Word and on the first line write : “=rand(200,99)” (without the quotes) and hit Enter.

It also works great on AutoCorrect. Choose a word and select =rand(200,99) as the correction. Great fun.

Now I'll have to use that as a prank before the year is out.
Auto correct "the" to “=rand(200,99)"

[DimPrawn]

1. Drag all your important documents to the recycle bin.
2. Click bin and choose empty recycle bin.

At first it looks like you have irretrievably lost all your important documents.

3. Open up a command window
4. Type del.exe -bin -magic1

All you important documents are back!

A superb tip. Try it on your hiring managers PC and watch his face. Priceless.

[Andy2]

1. Drag all your important documents to the recycle bin.
2. Click bin and choose empty recycle bin.

At first it looks like you have irretrievably lost all your important documents.

3. Open up a command window
4. Type del.exe -bin -magic1

All you important documents are back!

A superb tip. Try it on your hiring managers PC and watch his face. Priceless.

you bastad, that did not work

[London75]

Number 2

Yes you can

md \\.\C:\con

Go on, try it, you know you want to.

[NotAllThere]

you bastad, that did not work

Apparently, if you type the word "Gullible" in Cell AZ:16336, it replaces it's automatically with "Credulous".

[NickFitz]

That Word thing is a documented feature. Further proof that most people only use about five percent[*] of Word's features, and that exactly zero users read documentation

[*]Of course MS now have to keep supporting it all, because everybody uses a different five percent...

[RichardCranium]

Apparently, if you type the word "Gullible" in Cell AZ:16336, it replaces it's automatically with "Credulous".

I tried that but it said 'gullible' is a spelling error.

It's not in my pocket dictionary either.