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- From: hole@netcom.com (Will Leland)
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- Subject: Secret Screens, Doodads, and Easter Eggs - A List
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.021047.24964@netcom.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 02:10:47 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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)
-