Title: Easter Eggs
Description: Post random 'easter eggs' here
Description: Post random 'easter eggs' here
the oob - July 16, 2005 12:21 AM (GMT)
Post random easter eggs that you know about here.
Search google for 'Where in the world is carmen sandiego'
Search google for 'Where in the world is carmen sandiego'
Dr_Steve - August 3, 2005 01:05 PM (GMT)
My personal favourite is the excel 97 flight simulator. To get it:
1. Open a new workbook
2. Press F5
3. Type in the expression following the hypen exactly, and with no spaces - X97:L97
4. Press Enter
5. Press Tab
6. Press the Ctrl and Shift buttons simultaneously and then click the Chart Wizard button on the toolbar while holding down the buttons.
This apparently works with excel 2000 as well, except that it launches a car game instead (and you have to type X2000:L2000). I can't test it as I've never had office 2000.
unfortunately any microsoft product from Windows XP onwards has no easter eggs because of a court ruling saying that MS is not allowed to have any undocumented features in their applications. There is however an easter egg-like feature in Word-XP:
Open a blank Word document, Type '=rand(n1,n2)' (without the quotes) and press Enter.
where n1 and n2 are numbers. This prints n1 paragraphs containing n2 sentances of "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
1. Open a new workbook
2. Press F5
3. Type in the expression following the hypen exactly, and with no spaces - X97:L97
4. Press Enter
5. Press Tab
6. Press the Ctrl and Shift buttons simultaneously and then click the Chart Wizard button on the toolbar while holding down the buttons.
This apparently works with excel 2000 as well, except that it launches a car game instead (and you have to type X2000:L2000). I can't test it as I've never had office 2000.
unfortunately any microsoft product from Windows XP onwards has no easter eggs because of a court ruling saying that MS is not allowed to have any undocumented features in their applications. There is however an easter egg-like feature in Word-XP:
Open a blank Word document, Type '=rand(n1,n2)' (without the quotes) and press Enter.
where n1 and n2 are numbers. This prints n1 paragraphs containing n2 sentances of "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
the oob - August 3, 2005 08:27 PM (GMT)
I think I've mentioned this one before, but go here and zoom in to the max.
Dr_Steve - August 4, 2005 04:16 AM (GMT)
lol so Its true!!
drag over this image so that it is selected (goes blue)
drag over this image so that it is selected (goes blue)
the oob - August 4, 2005 06:49 AM (GMT)
That only seems to work in IE.
Dr_Steve - August 4, 2005 08:18 AM (GMT)
dammit! stupid forefox ruins everything
samf - August 4, 2005 10:02 AM (GMT)
It's (sorta) visible to the naked eye in Firefox - anyway, it owns IE for a whole bunch of better reasons than seeing gimmick pictures. Cleverly done though!