Hello! Microsoft Office...
It would seem that this is a powerful office suite that contains a database editor and a program for creating presentations, a multifunctional word processor and a table editor, an application for writing various notes and an application for working with diagrams.
The programs are really very serious and are designed for office plankton.
But behind this seriousness can be hidden various funny things, jokes and even whole games that the developers of this very office suite left over the years.
So, yes, today we, together with Vladimir from the Veselcraft channel, will talk and look at Easter eggs and even oddities in Microsoft Office applications of different years. Okay, let's start.
[Intro]
First, we'll walk through Microsoft Word 2.0.
There is one little funny scene hidden in this program. Go to Word, open the “Tools” list and select “Macro”. In the “Macro Name” field write Spiff and press the “Edit” button.
Erase all text from there. Then open File and click Close, save the changes.
And after all this, you open the "About" window, click on the Word logo and that very scene begins: little men start to run, from fright they run to the edge of the window. Later, a green monster emerges holding a sign that says W.P.
The initials W.P were chosen for a reason - it is the name of the competing text editor WordPerfect at the time.
After a while, the Word logo crushes this monster, the little men begin to rejoice and the names and surnames of those who worked on the program begin to appear against the background of the stars.
In Microsoft Word 95, 97, and 2000, you can call up a box that appears when the application starts.
To do this, go to the Help menu and click "About", then while holding down the CTRL+ALT+SHIFT keys, press the separator bar.
And tada, a splash was open. In Office 95, you can hide it with a click of the mouse button, but in Office 97 and 2000, the application simply starts to freeze.
The next this easter egg is more likely from Russian translators.
If you follow this path (C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Grphflt), find the file cdrimp32.flt, open it in any text editor and starting from line 1293 you will find a funny poem.
[the funny poem]
Racing in Excel. Open Microsoft Excel, save a blank table as a Web page. In the save window, check the box to save only one sheet and check the box to enable interactivity.
After saving, open this page in a browser. Move to line 2000 and reach the WC column. After all this, hold down CTRL+ALT+SHIFT, simultaneously click on the logo in the upper left corner and an arcade-style racing game appears in front of us.
Let's move on
If you also type the command =rand(200,99) in Microsoft Word and press Enter, then Word will scribble you the phrase "Eat some more of these soft French buns, and have some tea (Russian font test example)" for 258 pages.
The fact is that even Microsoft itself cannot explain why this is happening and why the program reacts to this command. This is still the case in modern Word.
But there is no longer a phrase from an example of how a font works, but excerpts from help and tips for Microsoft Office.
And again Microsoft Word!
If you type the sentence «Правоспособность - способность лица иметь гражданские права и нести обязанности» <- [Russian text], then the application instantly terminates its work without explaining the reasons.
Either this is an easter egg that makes you think about the truth of our hard life, or it is a banal error of the spell check script, but still it's funny.
And if you type the phrase "I want to avoid military service" and right-click on the green underline, you will see a comment with which you may disagree.
[Translate from Russian: "No one escaped military service"] And if you type the phrase "I want to avoid military service" and right-click on the green underline, you will see a comment with which you may disagree.
The following Easter egg is stored in Microsoft Excel 97.
Open it and create a new table. Press F5 and type X97:L97 and press Enter.
After you have moved to these lines, press the Tab key. Hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys and click on the Chart Wizard icon.
But instead, a dimension will open, where you can navigate through it with the mouse.
Meanwhile, the Microsoft Word 97 development team did not want to lag behind the Excel developers and also made their own Easter egg - a Pinball game in Word.
To open it, create a new document. Write the word Blue in the document by coloring it blue and making it bold.
Place a space after the word "Blue". Open the "About" window, hold down the left Ctrl + Shift and click on the Word logo. Now, Pinball is open :)
Remember such a thing as Magic Eight Ball?
Remember The Simpsons? There was a scene where Milhouse and Bart ask questions and shake the eight ball to get answer.
This is also in Microsoft Access.
First, create a new database and create a new macro there. Without entering any commands, save the macro with the name: Magic Eight Ball.
Close the macro window.
Now drag the macro you just created to the toolbar. And the macro will create an icon that looks like a magic eight ball. Ask yourself a question, click on it and Clippy will tell you the answer.
The next easter egg is related to Microsoft Excel 95. And it is called the Hall of Tortured Souls.
To open this Easter egg, open Excel with an empty table. Go down to the 95th line, select it.
Press the Tab key. Go to Help and click "About". While holding down the Ctrl+Alt and Shift key combinations, click the technical support button.
Instead of a help window, a window appears with the title Hall of Tortured Souls. At the end of this hall there will be the names and surnames of the programmers who worked on the product.
If you take a turn and enter the word "excelkfa", then you can walk along the walls and look at interesting paintings.
By the way, the engine for this easter egg was most likely taken from the DOOM.
What the design of the rooms hints at and the previously mentioned cheat code, which is a reference to the cheat code - "IDKFA", which in the original game gave out full health and armor, all cartridges, guns and keys to the doors.
Well, the last, already a little Easter egg, is in the program for creating a PowerPoint presentation.
Open the following presentation in PowerPoint along the path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\PPCENTRL.PPS
After opening the presentation, go to Tools/Macro and select the "Macros" command. In the window that appears with lists of all presentation macros, select the "EasterEgg" macro and click "Run".
After the launch, the assistant Clippy will inform you that PowerPoint is "Another product brought to you by Imran Qureshi..."
Most likely, you will ask me: But why were not modern versions of Microsoft Office considered here, such as Office 2013, 2016 and higher?
But, I'll tell you that Microsoft announced in 2002 that it would no longer add Easter eggs to office products.
And on the one hand, the programs have become more serious, but on the other hand, there are no more funny Easter eggs that would be very interesting to find. Therefore, something like that.
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