Can any of you tell me how to access the embedded games the good engineers at Microsoft insert into Excel?

Asked by Dutchess_III (47052

) June 20th, 2012

In Windows 97 you put your cursor in a certain cell, then press a key combination and it threw you into a cool game where you had to walk make it through hurdles, like over a log across a chasm without falling. Once you got through all the hurdles you wound up in a ‘room’ where the walls were made up of the pictures of some (all?) the engineers at Microsoft. You could turn around in this room. It was REALLY cool! Do they have any thing like that in Windows 7?

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From what I’ve gathered, Vista and 7 don’t have any.

Nullo (22028

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Look up Windows “easter eggs” on your friendly search engine. There are still some for later Windows OS. Some are on the DVD disc ( hologram )

Tropical_Willie (31403

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That is ridiculous! “If the manufacturer of the software that’s on every desktop in your company can’t stop their developers from sneaking undocumented features into the product (even features as relatively benign as an Easter Egg), how can you be sure that they’ve not snuck some other undocumented feature into the code.” Well, just because there are no
“Easter Eggs” doesn’t mean that they DIDN’T sneak some dastardly thing in! That just sucks. >_<

Dutchess_III (47052

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Psshhht. Games? Fuck a bunch of games. I’d be happy if I could just drill and have it work one time.

Trillian (21153

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I used to drive my teachers crazy with these when I was in school. The computers weren’t supposed to have any games on, so they got really confused when they’d come back into the room, after I’d quickly told everyone how to open Word Pinball or whatever…

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