MS word tricks

This video shows that in MS Word, if you blow up certain Chinese characters (e.g. 500%) and put them in outline, that you can see the name of one 胡万进 (Hu Wanjin) inside the characters. The video narrators says this practice can be traced back to when people made tea pots for the emperor and secretly engraved their names on them—at great risk to themselves, since being discovered could mean death. We tried this with our Apple 2004 edition of Word and don't see anything like this. If you have a PC and have a recent edition of MS Word (preferably the Chinese version, though perhaps it works as long as you type in Chinese), check it out and tell us if it's real. Or else, you could try doing something meaningful with your life.

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Real or not, I don't think this has anything to do with the Microsoft Word program itself. It's all in the FONT they used in the video. Anybody can create their own font so this is obviously possible. Just use some special font, in Word or whatever program, make it big and you'll see whatever the creator of that font put in there. It's not rocket science :P

I use Word 2007 and I can't find it in there.

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