Erlkönig: Excel 97 Easter Egg - Flight Simulator

from Andy Nguyen, Tivoli, Austin TX, Tue Mar 30 01:01:43 1999

Apparently, the constant rain up in Redmond has driven Bill's engineers to obsessive flights of fancy. Below, you'll find instructions on how to access a little flight simulator that was inexplicably hidden by precipitation-maddened programmers deep inside Excel 97.

Procedure

1. In Excel 97, open a new blank worksheet.
2. Press (go to) and type X97:L97 in the "Reference" box
3. Then **click Ok.
4. Now, hit the key once. (you should end up in cell M97)
5. Here's the tricky part: Press + while clicking once on the "Chart Wizard" button. (the one with the blue-yellow-red barchart icon)
6. After a few moments, you should be flying.
7. Steer with the mouse and look for the credits screen.
8. You can exit the screen by pressing

Instruction to fly....

• once you get that screen showing the purplish terrain, use your mouse to manoeuvre around by......
• Clicking left mouse button **- *to fly forward/faster
• Clicking right mouse button **- *to fly backward/slower
• Moving mouse downward *- *to fly upward
• Moving mouse upward *- *to fly downward
• Left/right movement *- *as it is, left and right.

Enjoy...