List of Easter eggs in Microsoft products

Microsoft formally stopped including Easter Eggs in its programs as part of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative in 2002.

Double clicking the list box further changes the background of the window to tiled smiley faces.

The instructions for invoking the Easter egg vary depending on the version:[citation needed] Windows 3.0 has a developer credits page which may be accessed by setting the focus to the desktop (by minimizing all windows and clicking on an open area of the desktop) then typing win30 followed by F3 and ← Backspace in quick succession.

This page is accessed by renaming a folder on the desktop to "and now, the moment you've all been waiting for", then "we proudly present for your viewing pleasure", and finally "The Microsoft Windows 95 Product Team!".

The story behind this is; one of the team members spoke with a strong accent and when referring to the main competition 'Paradox' it sounded like "Pair o' Ducks".

The gun killing the ducks is something like what the earlier release date and ridiculously cheap pricing, did to Paradox.

In truth the product was not truly ready for market at the time of the release of 1.0 and it was almost immediately followed up with a free copy of 1.1 for those that could produce evidence of their purchase of 1.0, but the damage had been done to Paradox.

Paradox did eventually come to market, and probably with a better product, but by that time, people looking for an all encompassing, low level application and database development platform, were already using Microsoft Access.

[citation needed] In Word for Windows 2, there is a simple animation involving a WordPerfect 'Monster', a fireworks display and credits roll in the About box.

On older versions, typing =rand() in a Word document and hitting "Enter" results in 3 paragraphs of 5 repetitions of the pangram "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".

[39][40] In Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010, the repeated sentence is replaced with a longer text: On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document.

You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and other document building blocks.

To make your document look professionally produced, Word provides header, footer, cover page, and text box designs that complement each other.

If you need to stop reading before you reach the end, Word remembers where you left off - even on another device.When =rand(1,1) is written, only a simple sentence is shown: in English, it is "On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document.

"[39] In Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and online, the pangram "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" text is available by typing the command =rand.old() and pressing enter.

[39] Additionally, typing =lorem() gives the following text:[39] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.

[39] In Microsoft Word 2021, when dark mode is enabled, the picture icon in the insert tab replaces the sun with a moon.