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Pinball in Word 97
Name: Adam Date: March 30, 2003 at 07:06:18 Pacific OS: Windows 98/ME CPU/Ram: 776mhz/128mb
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I installed Office 97 on two computers one with Windows 98 and the other Windows 98 SE. I have Office 97 Pro and no matter hard I try I cannot get the pinball game and office 97 completes successfully with no errors. All other easter eggs work though like flight simulator in Excel 97 and Magic Eight Ball in Access 97 and Macerna in Powerpoint 97.
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: March 31, 2003 at 04:50:25 Pacific
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"no matter how hard I try, I cannot get the pinball game". What steps are you going through to play the game? I have the step by step if you need assistance, but I'm curious what you've tried.
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Response Number 2
Name: Adam Date: April 1, 2003 at 14:29:01 Pacific
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I type in blue then highlight format font blold and then blue then space after blue and help about and cltr and shift and whola. I did the same steps on a different office 97 worked perfect.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dr. Nick Date: April 2, 2003 at 21:02:55 Pacific
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Maybe when you installed Office you didn't choose to install the 'pinball' component. Ha ha!
Anyway, did you use the exact same disk for both installs? I know that MS will release a Service Release every now and then that fixes and updates a product. If you installed the original Office 97 on one machine and Office 97 SR-2 on another, they might be the same except that SR-2 has the easter egg(s) removed (MS really doesn't like those).
The other possibility is that an update or a patch you installed on one of the machines might have removed the easter egg(s). I've also heard of this happening, though I think they did it more with Windows than with Office, but who really knows?
Hope that helps.
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Response Number 4
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: April 9, 2003 at 05:29:24 Pacific
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Did you left click the Word icon after pressing Ctrl and Shift?
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Response Number 5
Name: Adam Date: April 9, 2003 at 15:29:17 Pacific
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Yes I did click the word icon.
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Response Number 6
Name: Dr. Nick Date: April 12, 2003 at 21:17:09 Pacific
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That egg was removed in Office 97 SR-1.
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Response Number 7
Name: Adam Date: April 13, 2003 at 08:20:10 Pacific
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Can you remove SP-1???
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Response Number 8
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: April 14, 2003 at 05:28:29 Pacific
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I'm using Word '97, SP2, and it works fine for me....
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Response Number 9
Name: Dr. Nick Date: April 18, 2003 at 18:15:39 Pacific
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Are you using SR-2 or do you have SP2 installed on your computer? If you go to the Help menu, then to About you can see what version you are running.
Do note, though that a Service Release (SR) is different than a Service Pack (SP).
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