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Excel  Easter Eggs

This is just one of the many Easter Eggs you can get from EEGGS.COM.  If you like these kinds of things, I recommend you go there and find some more.  (These instructions come from this website.)

Car racing game:

  • Boot Excel 2000

  • Under file menu, do 'Save as Web Page'.

  • Say 'Publish Sheet' and 'Add Interactivity'

  • Save to some htm page on your drive.

  • Load the htm page with IE. You should have Excel in the middle of the page.

  • Scroll to row 2000, column WC. Select row 2000, and tab so that WC is the active column.

  • Hold down Shift+Crtl+Alt and click the Office logo in the upper-left.

  • If you have DirectX, you will be playing what looks like spy hunter. Use the arrow keys to drive, space to fire, O to drop oil slicks, and when it gets dark, use H for your headlights.

 

Note: Not everyone has been able to make this work and I'm researching why.  For example, it works when I try it at school using IE5, but not when I try it at home, using IE 5.5.  At home, I get a Microsoft Web Components box. (?)  It's possible it's because I run Personal Web Server (for FrontPage)?? I also have the Office 2k SR-1 patch and maybe this is stopping it?  Or, perhaps it's because my home computer is on a cable modem network and therefore, always connected to the internet?  But, for those of you who can do it.....have fun!!  If you have problems getting it to work and figure them out, let me know so I can pass the info onto others.


 

For those of you still using Excel 97, and haven't yet found its Easter Egg, try this and you will get a flight simulator:

 

  • Open a new workbook

  • Press F5

  • Enter X97:L97 and press Enter

  • Press Tab once, to move to column M

  • Hold Control and Shift, then right-click the Chart Wizard icon on the Standard toolbar

 

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