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Secret Screens, Doodads, and Easter Eggs - A List

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From: Will Leland
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:10
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Word for Windows:  Six little men appearing, trying to escape a green
WordPerfect monster. They end up squashing it with a Word log.
How:  Open a new document, select Record Macro under the Tools menu.  Create a
macro named SPIFF and click on the OK box.  From the Tools menu again,
select Stop Recorder, then Macro and click on SPIFF.  Select Edit and
delete the Sub Main and End Sublines.  Under the File menu, select Close
and click on Yes.  Go to the Help menu, select About and click on the Word
logo.

Norton Desktop for Windows:  A picture of the development team with
quotations from Hilaire Belloc, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Victor Hugo, etc.
How:  Select About from the Help menu.  Click three times while holding down
the keys N, D, and W.

Excel 4.0:  Blue and pink logo moves across screen leaving bugs and debris.
Archrival logo swoops down, ejects competitor, and says "No Problemo."
How:  Call up a blank worksheet with a Standard Tool Bar on top.  Use the
right hand button on the mouse and click.  From the Customize option, select
Custom, drag the Solitaire icon to an empty spot on the Tool Bar.  Under
Assign to Tool, click OK, click Close, then hold the Ctrl Alt Shift keys
while clicking on the Solitaire icon.

OS/2 2.0:  Picture of beach with names of the development team.
How:  Ctrl Alt Shift and O together.

(from the LA Times 11/22/92)
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Subject: Secret Screens, Doodads, and Easter Eggs - A List
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