HUMOR: BoS: Amusing Excel tricks. (fwd)

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Mon, 19 May 1997 22:37:02 -0400 (EDT)

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 11:24:14 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sheilagh Marie Blaise O'Hare <martini@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
To: best-of-security@suburbia.net
Subject: BoS: Amusing Excel tricks.
Resent-Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:58:09 +1000 (EST)
Resent-From: best-of-security@suburbia.net

----- Forwarded message from Dr. T. J. O'Hare -----

>>From tohare@mail.utexas.edu Wed May 14 09:57 CDT 1997
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 09:57:06 -0500
>This is unbelievably bizarre but if you have Excel for Windows 95, it
>really works, you can play a MS-version of Doom in Excel. (Those people at
>Microsoft must have a lot of time on their hands!)
>
>1. Open Excel for Windows 95 with a blank worksheet
>2. Scroll down to row 95
>3. Click on the number 95 to select the whole row.
>4. Press Tab once to move to column B
>5. Select the Menu Help...About MicroSoft Excel
>6. Hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift and click on the Tech Support button
>7. A window labelled Hall of Tortured Souls appears
>8. Directly ahead of you are stairs with a scrolling cast list --go up
>and take a look around - use cursor keys
>9. But there's more! Turn around, go back down the stairs and type
>"excelkfa" (no quotes)
>10. The wall disappears, and there's a winding path to navigate to see
>pictures.
>
>ALSO!
>
>Type zzzz in Word and use spellcheck . . . . . (it won't work with zzz
>or zzzz) >(doesn't work in foreign versions of word ; - ()

----- End of forwarded message from Dr. T. J. O'Hare -----

I'm not sure if that is supposed to be 'won't work with zzz or zzzzz)', but
lemme know. The excel thing was cute.

sheil