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Microsoft Hidden Games

Developers Dance (v2.5)

Requires: Windows 95 or better
Hidden Game: 1. Type: WhoIsTheGenius? (No return, exact case)
2. Hold Ctrl and Shift and press the "Open Favorites" button.
3. See the chat team do the chat dance!

Note: Only works with MS Chat version 2.5

 

Calculator2000

Requires: Calculator2000, Windows 2000
Hidden Game: Open the calculator, type in 245243 then times by 1 but dont push =. Then go to help and select extra. This extra button has just come up now and is because you have done that sum. It then comes up with put in the password. Type in Loreta Bogita (The programmers girlfriend or something). It then comes up with a little picture which is a puzzle, try and figure it out and see what it makes.

 

Color Me Crap

Requires: IE and(or Netscape) 4+
Hidden Game: Quite randomly, found out that when coding HTML one can specify the color "crap" within the font tag. Simply write <font color="crap"> and the resulting bit of text will have a light brown tinge.

 

Four Best Mothers

Requires: Microsoft Office 95
Hidden Game: 1. Open Office 95 toolbar
2. Right click on logo in top left corner
3. Click on About Microsoft Office
4. Shows license screen and product ID
5. CTRL-SHIFT double-click the Office 95 logo
6. Up pops Office 95 title screen
7. Click on title screen to close it
8. License screen has changed ...
9. Hi MOM!

 

View the Macarena

Requires: Powerpoint 97
Hidden Game: 1. Load Power Point
2. Go into "Help-about"
3. Hold ctrl,shift and alt
4. Click on the horizontal line, (under the licensing info) 3 times
5. Sit back and enjoy!!

 

Message in About Box

Requires: Powerpoint 95
Hidden Game: 1. Go to the help menu.
2. Click on About Microsoft Powerpoint.
3. Press Ctrl - Alt - Shift and hold.
4. Triple click on horizontal divider in About box.

 

Hidden Message Plus (Microsoft)

Requires: None
Hidden Game: 1. Select the Inside Your Computer Theme
2. Start a program or do something else to make the hourglass appear
3. The numbers "101011" scroll across the screen of the
4. The ascii character for 101011 in decimal is "+"

 

Hidden Something SMS (Microsoft)

Requires: none
Hidden Game: 1. Start the Microsoft SMS System Administrator
2. Click on Help
3. About SMS Administrator
4. Type Hermes (dont press ok)



Bus Style Sheet

Requires: MS SQL Server 7.0
Hidden Game: 1. Load Enterprise Manager.

2. Click on a registered server and minimize the window (Windows-m) before the sytle sheet loads.

3. Maximize the Enterprise Manager window and you'll see an image of a bus head on, rather than the SQL Server page.

 

Change Cursor Appearance Word (Microsoft)

Requires: none
Hidden Game: 1. Open Winword
2. Hold down Ctrl Alt then press +
3. Notice the mouse pointer appearance change into a clover leaf.
4. If this does not work, click Help, About
Repeat step 2

 

"Sex" in spell checker Word (Microsoft)

Requires: none
Hidden Game: 1. In any document type zzzz
2. Hit the space bar
3. The spell checker will put a wavy red line under the zzzz
4. Place the cursor over the zzzz and right click
5. See how Bill Gates defines zzzz

 

Word 97 Thesaurus Tricks: Fun, but NOT REAL EGGS

Requires: Windows 95 or better, or Windows NT
Easter Egg: There are a bunch of fun things you can do with the Thesaurus in Word 97, but I want to make it clear that these are NOT EGGS because they follow the expected behavior of the program. I will demonstrate:
1. In a document, type "I'd like to see you naked".
2. Highlight the phrase and select Tools->Thesaurus (or type shift-F7)
3. It will suggest the phrase "I'll drink to that" as a synonym.
4. You'll get the same answer for things like "I'd like to see Bill Clinton resign", "I'd like to see Bill Gates dead", or any phrase starting with "I'd like to..."

That's because this is EXPECTED BEHAVIOR.. if the thesaurus doesn't know an actual synonym, it shows you the closest alphabetical phrase it knows about. It might be weird, it might be funny, but it's not something the programmers hid inside the program.
Another common phrase to do this with is "unable to follow directions".

Enjoy!

Smiley Faces (NOT AN EGG)

Requires: Word 97
Easter Egg: simply type a colon followed by a right or left parentheses. depending on what parentheses you press a circle w/ a happy or sad inside face will appear.

Note from Webmasters: This is NOT an egg. This is a documented feature of Word. We're allowing this to be posted, because it is a little-known feature that people keep submitting as an egg.

Midi song in Winword 2000

Requires: Hex editor, midi player
Easter Egg: Open winword.exe (2000) (tested with rel. 9.0.2812)
at offset 1DF94h you will find 4Dh 45h 68h 64h: this is the header of the midi song.
Extract 7819 bytes (1E8Ah), that is until you find 96h 39h 00h 02h 91h 1Ah 00h 00h FFh 2Fh 00h
: this is the midi file.
Save it with .mid extension and play it with any midi player.

 

Cast of Characters for Word2000

Requires: Word2000
Hidden Game: 1. Open Microsoft Word2000
2. Press F1 or click the "Office Assistant" button
3. Under the "What would you like to do?", type "Cast" (No quotes)
4. Click SEARCH
5. Click the MICROSOFT OFFICE 2000 USER ASSISTANCE STAFF topic
6. Click the graphic in the Microsoft Word Help screen

 

Pinball in Word 97

Requires: Word 97
Hidden Game: 1. Open a new document
2. Type "Blue"
3. Select word
4. Go to Format -> Font
5. Choose Font Style Bold, Color Blue
6. Type " " (space) after word "Blue"
7. Go to Help -> About
8. Ctrl-Shift-Left click the Word icon/banner
9. Use Z for left flipper, M for right flipper, and ESC to exit
10. Discover what Microsoft means by "Productivity Application"

Word Soldiers vs. WP monster (v2.0)

Requires: Microsoft Word 2.0
Hidden Game: The Easter egg in this version of Word is the most interesting one.

1.Go Tools->Macro
2.Type the macro name "Spiff" (no quotes) and choose the Edit button. This displays a new macro editing window, with the default instructions "Sub MAIN" and "End Sub."
2.Select the contents of the window and delete them.
3.Choose File->Close. When asked if you want to save changes to the macro, choose Yes.
4.Choose About from the Help menu, and click the Word icon in the dialog box.
5.This plays a little animation that shows a series of figures, with the help of the Word icon, defeating a huge green monster that identifies himself as "W.P."

(If you didn't understand the monster's name, it's WordPerfect)

 

HTML Colors ( FrontPage )

Requires: Front Page 2000
Easter Egg: HTML markup language allows you to use color names to represent the color value. If you use the word yellow you will get yellow. Here are some other interesting colors:

Crap = nice hideous brown
Fuck = interesting orange/brown
Cock = kind of green
Cunt = bright red
Butt = don't know why but it is red too
Monkey = vibrant blue
Twat = Key lime green

We could go on, but we are rolling from laughter. Hope you enjoy - please post others you find.

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