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Word 97 Easter Egg (Take a look back at Microsoft Word Easter Eggs)

But like any artist, the developers are definitely entitled to a generic.

I found two of them... one is a random disappearance of the document I was working on, without saving changes or asking any questions. The other is a random message stating that an unexpected error has occurred and asking if I want to send them the details.

WAIT... those aren't Easter eggs, just poor coding in overpriced software. My mistake.

I remember a flight simulator of sorts being in Excel when you previewed a spreadsheet in a browser and went to a cell on row 2000 or something. I'll just wait for the "Microsoft Excel Easter Eggs" post for that, though.

This gallery also made me curious with the opening statement about how they must be documented. Theoretically, couldn't they put the documentation in the help text for ones like the one where you type "Cast" in the Office Assistant search? Because you have to perform the Easter egg to find the documentation, would that still qualify and/or be allowed by Microsoft for a future version of Office?

Before Word 95 there was a pretty funny Easter Egg in Word (for Windows 3.1) that displayed an animated sequence of a Microsoft agent jumping up and down on a Wordperfect logo until it was pounded into the ground. That was was pretty funny, until you realized that Microsoft was dead serious about killing Wordperfect.
Brad Smith (ancient mariner)

Wow...I completely forgotten about that one. Thanks for the trot down memory lane!

I always called it "Word Imperfect" and some other terms unfit for publishing.

Maybe Corel finally improved it, but as far as I was concerned it should have died on the vine!

Corel still sells it. It's now WordPerfect Office X5 and sells for $249.99 for the full edition. There isn't a spreadsheet or anything big other than the word processor in it that I could see.

The past is prologue.

need to add the flight sim that was hidden in excel. That was awesome. I remember flying around and finding the gold scrolling plaque with the dev. names on it.

-Chris