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Excel Easter Eggs

dmw16

Diamond Member
Has anyone gotten it to work? My boss and I were trying w/ no luck. Is there some little trick to it?
 
Originally posted by: dmw16
Apparently in Excel 2000 there is a way to launch a spy hunter type game or something

Yeah...I've gotten it to work. It's just a pain because you have to publish a web page with interactive junk or something....
 
Yeh there is, I didn't manage to get it to work, but I then realized I was on 2000 SR-1 or something, which it wasn't on.

Post pics if it works!

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 nad 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.
 
I got it to work several times before office 2k3. Pretty cool. If I remember correctly you just need to put a value in a certain cell, then save it as a specific type of document. Anyhow, it does work.
 
Originally posted by: letdown427
Yeh there is, I didn't manage to get it to work, but I then realized I was on 2000 SR-1 or something, which it wasn't on.

Post pics if it works!

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 nad 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.

I have excel 2000 SR-1 and this doesn't work.

Edit: This is for excel 2002 according to the website posted above.
 
Originally posted by: ggnl
Originally posted by: letdown427
Yeh there is, I didn't manage to get it to work, but I then realized I was on 2000 SR-1 or something, which it wasn't on.

Post pics if it works!

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 nad 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.

I have excel 2000 SR-1 and this doesn't work.

Edit: This is for excel 2002 according to the website posted above.

It doesn't work for me in 2002. The website above says that the Easter Eggs were removed from 2002 because of complaints of bloat.
 
I cant get it to work in my version of Excel 2000 unless Im missing something. (and to the guy who asked me if i googled it, yes, I just couldnt get it to work)
 
Originally posted by: dmw16
I cant get it to work in my version of Excel 2000 unless Im missing something. (and to the guy who asked me if i googled it, yes, I just couldnt get it to work)

using excel 2000 and i got it to work

this part here: Scroll to row 2000, column WC. Select row 2000, and tab so that WC is the active column

screwed me up because i didn't read it carefully enough.
 
I got it to work but wheneve I try to capture the screen it closes the game...it also crashes my vid capture program.
 
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