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Hidden Office Gems

Hidden Office Gems

Word 2000 Credis:

Not as flash as Word 97

Open Microsoft Word2000
Press F1 or click the “Office Assistant” button
Under the “What would you like to do?”, type “Cast” (No quotes)
Click SEARCH

Click the MICROSOFT OFFICE 2000 USER ASSISTANCE STAFF topic

Click the graphic in the Microsoft Word Help screen

Word 97  Pinball game.
Sorry there’s no score.

Start a new document in word 97
Type in the word Blue (with a capital B)
Select the word (double click on it)
Choose Format | Font
Select Bold and change the colour to Blue
Click on OK
Type in a space after the word
Choose Help | About Microsoft Word
Hold down the Ctrl and Shift key and click on the Word icon in the dialog box
Z and M operates the flippers
Esc quits.
 

Excel 97 Flight Simulator.
Can you find the scrolling tombstone with microsoft credits on it???

Open Excel
Select Edit | Goto
Type x97:l97
Press Enter
Press the tab key once
Hold down the crtl and shift key together and press on the chart wizard button on the toolbar
The mouse move you left button forward right button backward its very sensitive
Esc quits

Excel 2000 Credits

Repeat the above except enter x2000:l2000

Excel 2000 Spy Hunter

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 (no to NT4), 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.

Access 97 & 2000 The Magic Eight Ball.
Ask it a question and it will give you and answer.

Load Access
Create a blank database
Go To “MACROS”
Click on “NEW”
Press space
Close the Window
Click “YES” Save as “Magic Eight Ball”
Go to “VIEW/TOOLBARS/CUSTOMIZE”
Check off macro design
Click on the COMMANDS Tab
Click on All Macros
Drag the macro to the second toolbar.
Think to yourself is Mickyc the main man
And click on the button

Outlook 97 & 98, who is Ren Hoek

To view the development team in Outlook 97 & 98

Create and save a contact named ‘Ren Hoek
Select the contact
select Help about Microsoft Outlook
Press Ctrl-Alt-Shift and click on the OK button.

PowerPoint 2000 Fancy Credits

Load PowerPoint 2000

Start a blank presentation with a title slide

Select Help | About
Press and hold Shift-Ctrl-Alt
Double-click on the left panel where is the Powerpoint logo

PowerPoint 97 Lets do the Macerena
This ones a little bit naff

Load PowerPoint 2000

Start a blank presentation with a title slide
Select Help about PowerPoint
Press Ctrl, Shift and Alt
Click on the horizontal line, (under the licensing info) 3 times

Another little hidden gem this time IE5
Open up IE5 From the menu,
select Tools | Internet Options |General (tab) | Languages (button) Press ‘Add’
Type: “ie-ee” (without the quotes) and click ‘OK’
Move “User Defined [ie-ee]” to the TOP of the list
Exit back to where you can browse in IE5 again
Click on the Search icon (to pull up the side search menu)
Look at the new options
Select ‘Previous Searches’  for loads of hidden stuff
Click on Customize for a neat about box.
To regain your search bar move the ie-ee language from the top inside internet options

Open GL’s Volcano
Virtually every one knows this one but I’ve mentioned it anyway
On Windows 95b or 98 or NT4
Set the text on the 3D text screen saver to volcano and it will randomly display various volcanos around the world.
For NT only Ii think, type not evil and the developers name appear
I’ve also been told that the word beer will display various beer but never got it to work.
 

Netscape

Netscapes Fish Cam which can be obtained by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F
And a silly mozilla message by typing about:mozilla in the location bar (mozilla being Netscape’s original name)

Does anyone know any for Windows NT4??
E-mail me please

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