{"id":4816,"date":"2008-03-20T15:27:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-8-open-office\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:33:05","slug":"the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-8-open-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-8-open-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The great software Easter egg hunt &#8211; Day 8: Open Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/03\/openstarwars.png\" alt=\"Take a break from work to shoot aliens\" align=\"right\" \/>Having already tapped into Easter eggs inside Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-4-word\/\">Word<\/a>  and <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-5-ms-works\/\">Works<\/a>, I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d pay homage to the fine work independent developers have done towards spreading Easter cheer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">Open Office<\/a> is one of the most popular open source apps around and makes for a viable free alternative to Microsoft Office. What&#8217;s more, I reckon the hidden goodies are better too.<\/p>\n<p>There are two great hidden games inside Open Office 2.0. The first is a classic Space Invaders shooter, which can be accessed by entering &#8220;=GAME(&#8220;StarWars&#8221;) in any cell. You&#8217;ll also find a Tic Tac Toe game by typing &#8220;=Game(A1:C3;&#8221;TicTacToe&#8221;)&#8221; into cell A4. The game will then be launched in cells A1 to C3.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting Easter egg in this version of the suite is one that prints the minor build information and credits list in the &#8216;About OpenOffice.org&#8217; window. To access this you need to select &#8216;Help, &#8216;About OpenOffice.org&#8217; then hold down Ctrl+S+D+T. Another inclusion by the application&#8217;s sycophantic programmers is a hidden picture of the development team which you&#8217;ll find in OpenOffice.Org Writer. Enter &#8220;StarWriterTeam&#8221; into a Writer document and a picture of the crew will appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having already tapped into Easter eggs inside Microsoft&#8217;s Word and Works, I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d pay homage to the fine work independent developers have done towards spreading Easter cheer. Open Office is one of the most popular open source apps around and makes for a viable free alternative to Microsoft Office. What&#8217;s more, I reckon the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-8-open-office\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The great software Easter egg hunt &#8211; Day 8: Open Office&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336259,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/336259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}