• @blackn1ght@feddit.uk
    23•13 hours ago

    I actually accidentally did this at school way back when. My mate and I decided to have an “Excel” race, where we’d start at the top of the sheet and see who could reach the bottom first by holding down either down arrow or pg down (this is obviously fun when you’re 15).

    Anyway, I reach the bottom, many laughs are had, go back the top, continue with whatever bullshit assignment we’d been given and then sent it off to the printer. Went onto some top down mini golf flash game and pissed about on there for a bit, until the teacher stands next to me and slams down a massive pile of paper onto my desk. She didn’t look impressed.

    Turns out I must have put a space or some random character at the bottom by accident and printed it. However the biggest issue was that I’d put my name in the header for the sheet, so every single page had my name in the top corner.

    • aname
      2•13 hours ago

      Also even commercial office printers usually have 500 page max unless you have some very special printer in the office.

      • @Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
        2•15 hours ago

        His big is the paper tray though? If it’s a boring normal printer you’re just gonna blow through 1 ream. If you’re lucky though it’ll be a huge copier/printer and you can burn through a few thousand sheets and a whole toner cartridge.

  • @Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    3•15 hours ago

    Alternatively, after placing the period, and then plant it on the tech idiot you don’t like’s computer. Then sit back and watch him flail to stop and try to debug it as the printer barfs out endless blank pages.

  • @IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
    119•1 day ago

    Just tested. It’s Ctrl+right, not Ctrl+left.

    Edit: also, no-one says that the cell size has to remain default. 34 million pages is rookie numbers.

  • MarzannaEnglish
    2•16 hours ago

    I remember when I sent a huge pdf document to printer and my coworkers noticed that it printed a thick stack of black sheets. I immediately cancelled the printer job and took this pile of sheet to my home and used the clean side for printing.

  • CodexArcanumEnglish
    44•1 day ago

    Try this fun prank next time a coworker wanders off and leaves their PC unlocked!

    • @I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ@lemmy.sdf.org
      11•1 day ago

      But won’t excel detect there’s no values and no print anything?

      I think it has logic to only print pages which have values.

      1. Type “.” In A1

      2. Change the fill colour of A1 to Black

      3. [CTRL] + [A] (Selects all cells)

      4. [CTRL] + [R] (Copy’s the left most selected column across to the right most select column)

      5. [CTRL] + [D] (Copy’s the top most selected column down to the bottom most select column)

      Every cell will now contain the value “.” and be set to fill colour black.

      1. Right click any of the column letters at the top > Set width > 1000. (Changes the column width to 1000 pixels. (Expanding the cells so they take up more room when printing)

      2. Right click any of the row numbers at the left hand side > Set height > 1000. (Changes the row height to 1000 pixels. (Expanding the cells so they take up more room when printing)

      3. [CTRL] + [P] (Opens up the print dialog)

      4. [ENTER] (Selects the print button to start printing)