[ale] M$ Easter Eggs.... a fib?

[J. Reeves Hall]

Eric Webb wrote:

> Ok, you guys must be fibbing, because I can't get to Excel's "flight sim"
> nor Word's "pinball".  I don't think I'm botching up the instructions (how
> much simpler can it get?)
>
> The only thing I can think of is that I've got some wrong versions here.  I'm
> running a Thinkpad with '95 and Office '97 installation.  I think this is an
> earlier version of Windows -- 4.00.950.

Word:

new document
type Blue
highlight it
format | font, set color to blue, press OK
put one space after Blue,
help | about, click on the picture

I've done it before. Pretty lame, but if you're REALLY bored... :)

Another one: run a spellcheck on the text "zzzz".

-Reeves