Excel 2000 Easter Egg.. SPY HUNTER!!

[guyver01]

Open 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.


You MUST NOT HAVE O2K Service Pack 1 installed. It WILL NOT work this way. MS is now integrating SP1 with the masters of retail stock so if you just recently bought O2K, you probably have it installed.

As far as the interactivity, if you have any other browser set as your default, you must go to whereever you saved the file and manually Shift-RightClick on it and then select "Open With...", scroll to "iexplore" and click OK.

"Publish Sheet" may not work. You may need to go to File - Save As Web Page, then under "Save: Entire Workbook [or] Selection: Sheet" choose Selection: Sheet. Check the box next to "Add Interactivity" and finally click save.

 

[poop]

I must say that is really fricking awesome. But then again, it lets me know why MS stuff is so buggy. They are wasting their time programming the nifty easter eggs.

 

[Bluga]

no game for me

i only got a window of "WINDOWS WEB COMPONENT"

 

[UWDawg]

Wow!! Cool Beans. Love this game.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

all i get is Office web components window! bummer

 

[bigd480]

damn..... my web components thing says somethingsomething SR-1

 

[SendTrash]

I only have office web components window
my version is 9.0.0.2710.. I don't have office sp installed... why cann't I get the game?

 

[urbantechie]

I don't even have WC..it goes to IV and stops :|

 

[VivYip]

i'm going to sound stupid, but i only got the web components stuff...darn...

EDIT: oops...what confused me is the "highlighted column" I did get it when you keep the row 2000 highlighted, then go for the cell WC in the higlighted row. do the rest and now it's okay...but now the game won't stop... ^_^ oh well

 

[SendTrash]

I only have office web components window
my version is 9.0.0.2710.. I don't have office sp installed... why cann't I get the game?

 

[Rent]

Holy crap! Thats freakin awesome! I wonder if they put anything else into it?

 

[Imported]

Woah.. that's cool. Whats the purpose of the game tho?

 

[dimsum]

I agree with Poop, are we paying for games of work?
they should spend more time fixing rather then playing.

 

[trmiv]

I can't get it to work either.
I
open up the page and all I get is this:



<< To use this Web page interactively, you must have Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.01 or later and the Microsoft Office Web Components. See the Microsoft Office Web site for more information. >>

 

[The Stigenator]

I am not going to install SP1 for the easter egg. It will force me to register. I dont register my software (not illegal, I just hate registering all my software).

 

[trmiv]

guyver01 acutally said that you

<< MUST NOT HAVE O2K Service Pack 1 installed >>

. So give it a try and see if it works, it didn't for me.

 

[PearlsGirl]

There was a similar easter egg in Office 97. It was kind of like a Flight Simulator of sorts.

_PsG

 

[dopcombo]

argh. doesnt work for me as well.

 

[SuperFreaky]

wow!!! thats cool!

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

these bastards should focus on making software smaller and more efficient rather than bloating the hell out of it by putting in stupid games as easter eggs that the majority of people won't know about or won't care about. stupid microsoft and stupid hard drive makers paying them off..

 

[fr]

I have the same version (9.0.0.2710) without SP1. You guys are probably not selecting row 2000. Press the &quot;2000&quot; button on the left to highlight the whole row. Then press and hold tab until you get to column WC. It'll work. Pretty cool actually.

 

[beer]

Can anyone timedemo this?

 

[Valhalla1]

sweet! it worked ! best easter egg yet.

 

[goog40]

Typical, it froze my system

 

[SendTrash]

<< Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:31 AM

I have the same version (9.0.0.2710) without SP1. You guys are probably not selecting row 2000. Press the &quot;2000&quot; button on the left to highlight the whole row. Then press and hold tab until you get to column WC. It'll work. Pretty cool actually. >>



Wow, thanks.. I will try it when i get home..

BTw you you guys saying why they put this &quot;useless&quot; feature.. guys.. relax and be grateful that they were able to sneak this through.. I thought there was a STRICT policy at Microsoft recently that any worker who puts easter eggs will get fired automatically