Wanna play "Spy Hunter" with Excel?

[Darth Sensei]

This works in Excel 2000 only AFAIK. This isn't a program, it's an Easter Egg embedded in Excel.

Under the file menu, choose 'Save as Web Page'
check 'Publish Sheet' and 'Add Interactivity'
Save to a htm page on your drive where you can easily find it.
Load the htm page with IE. You should have the Excel sheet 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.

Remember this doesn't work in other versions of Excel.

What do you think?


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[Raccoon Lad]

I can't believe it actually works!!!

Heh, that was cool!

[jerkov]

Hey that was pretty cool........how did someone discover this thing in the first place?

I remember a similar hidden game, and I think it was an older version of Excel or Word, but I could be mistaken. Anyway, if you did a certain thing, you'd end up walking around this dungeon type place in a first person perspective --- kind of like Doom or something. You make it to this room and all of the programmers names are on the wall. Very weird. Anyone ever play that one?

[Nature Boy]

I admit I think it's kinda cool but it pisses me off as well. MS's programs are freaking huge and I can't help wondering how much of my hard drive they're taking up with crapp like this.

FYI: It didn't work in Excel 2002.

[ClubNinja]

FYI: It didn't work in Excel 2002.

Seconded - I found that out the hard way :P

[Querjek]

Hey that was pretty cool........how did someone discover this thing in the first place?

I remember a similar hidden game, and I think it was an older version of Excel or Word, but I could be mistaken. Anyway, if you did a certain thing, you'd end up walking around this dungeon type place in a first person perspective --- kind of like Doom or something. You make it to this room and all of the programmers names are on the wall. Very weird. Anyone ever play that one?

I've never heard of that, but I know that in another older Windows program (Like Word or Wordpad), if you typed in some stuff and saved it (Or something), you would watch this 3D moon rover on a purple moon-ish surface. That was really cool at the time.

[KJN]

I've never heard of that, but I know that in another older Windows program (Like Word or Wordpad), if you typed in some stuff and saved it (Or something), you would watch this 3D moon rover on a purple moon-ish surface. That was really cool at the time.

Yes in Excel 97 you had a 3d landscape you could fly around in. Here is how to get to it:

Open Excel 97, press F5, enter X97:L97 and hit enter, press tab once, hold shift + ctrl and click on the chart button.

Stear with the mouse, left mousbutton to move forward, right to move backward, press escape to exit. You have to restart Excel if you want to do it again.

[Darth Sensei]

FYI: It didn't work in Excel 2002.

Seconded - I found that out the hard way :P

Yes, I know guys. I actually tried it in other versions of excel before I posted.

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[KJN]

Oh and for those who dont know, there are a lot of games you can download and play in Excel. Here is Pacman and Space invaders for example.

[Jorpho]

Hey that was pretty cool........how did someone discover this thing in the first place?

I remember a similar hidden game, and I think it was an older version of Excel or Word, but I could be mistaken. Anyway, if you did a certain thing, you'd end up walking around this dungeon type place in a first person perspective --- kind of like Doom or something. You make it to this room and all of the programmers names are on the wall. Very weird. Anyone ever play that one?

That was way back in Excel 95, actually.

The Spy Hunter game is a lot cooler than the flying-purple-landscape bit, I'd say. In any case, I believe Microsoft forbade its programmers from making any more easter eggs quite some time ago.

[Anonymous]

My Office XP suite didn't work at home, but my work machine has Office 2k...

[badinsults]

What exactly is the point of it, other than to display the credits of Excel?

[xfactor1984]

in excel or owrd also, if you type in "death" i think and use spell check it will comeback with "to bill gates" after death, but i forget what word you actually for it to do that. Does anyone know what I am talking about, I am not 100% sure about this since i have not done it in a while(like 3 or 4 years)