has anyone come accross this before

Open WORD and type the following:



=rand (200,98)



now press enter .

is there an explanation for this ??

 

That brough back memories from over 20 years ago!

 

Ther are quite a few of these Easter eggs in Microsoft applications (no wonder they are bloated). An "Easter Egg" is a small, undocumented procedure in a program that normally expresses interesting commentaries or gives credit to the people who labored over the program. Like their namesake, Easter Eggs normally take a while to find and can be quite elusive. Here are some more:

1. Open Microsoft Word
2. Type in:
I'd like Bill Clinton to resign
3. Highlight entire phrase
4. Click TOOLS / LANGUAGE / THESARUS or [SHIFT-F7]

You should see: "I'll drink to that"

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For Word 2000

1: Press the F1 key or click the

Office Assistant button.
2: Under the "What would you like to do?", type "Cast".
3: Click Search.
4: Select the

"Microsoft Office 2000 user assistance staff" topic.
5: Click the graphic in the Microsoft Word Help screen.

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ere's one for

Excell 2000. It's a bit tricky.

1: Open Excel.
2: In a blank worksheet, select "Save as" and choose "Save as web

page".
3: Click on Publish and Add interactivity.
4: Save as any name you like.
5: Load in the page with MS Internet

Explorer, Excel will appear in the webpage.
6: Go to row 2000 Column WC
7: Highlight all of row 2000 and press Tab to

make column wc the active column.
8: Hold the keys Ctrl, Alt, Shift and click on the Office Icon.
9:

Phew..


Use the arrow keys to drive your car.
The "0" key to drop paint slicks.
The spacebar to shoot.
The

"H" key for headlights.
NOTE: you need DirectX for this to work.
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and so on...

 

I thought it was !
It was the first one i've ever come across i'd heard about them in the papers in dvd's (pirates of the caribbean) a work collegue sent it to me today ill use the ones you gave me in a reply
many thanks
simonk