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Excel 95 - Hall Of The Tortured Souls

  • Open a blank work sheet
  • Go down to the 95th row
  • Select the whole row
  • Tab over to coloum B
  • Goto Help/About
  • Hold down ctrl-alt-shift
  • and click on the tech support button
  • A window appears call "Hall of Tortured souls"
  • At the end of the hall and all the programmers names. This is something a Doom simulation.
  • Now, here's the fun part: do a 180 turn and type excelkfa. Walk through the wall and see the pictures.

Excel 97 - Another Copy Of A Menu Item

  • Hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift
  • Click on any menu item
  • You will see the cursor with a plus sign
  • Drag it to another part of the menu
  • You will now have another copy of the menu item!

Excel 97 - Flight Simulation

  • On a new Worksheet, Press F5
  • Type X97:L97 and hit enter
  • Press the Tab key
  • Hold Ctrl-Shift
  • Click on the Chart Wizard toolbar button
  • Depending on how well your DirectX is intergrated, you will either find yourself in an eerrie lanscape or if you are using Windows 98, you will probably find yourself in a beautiful purple lanscape.
  • Use mouse to fly around - Right button forward/ Left button reverse
  • There shoud be a hidden shrine in the middle with the programmers message.

Here's more:

  • Face the hidden shrine (credits screen)
  • Move foreward towards the Hill using the left click for foreward thrust
  • At the edge of the Hill stop the thrust using right click
  • Point the view down by moving the mouse upwards
  • You should then see at the bottom of the cliff a water motion
  • There's the Blue Laggoon!

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