I love Easter Eggs. Not the chocolate variety, but the hidden features in programs that do weird things when you press certain combinations of keys - like pressing Ctrl alt F or typing about:mozilla in the location / go to box in Netscape.

However, a word of caution. I seem to have mucked up an otherwise perfectly decent copy of Microsoft Word 6 for Windows 3.1 - by trying the following:

Open Word 6 (or rather don't - this might mess up your copy and I don't want you blaming me). Press ctrl alt + or ctrl alt -. This changes the mouse pointer into a + or - sign.

Now click on the Help menu and chose Tip of the Day. I've not been able to repeat this, but I swear it said 'Did you know... you can hurt yourself if you run with scissors'. Or maybe that's a tip that comes up at random anyway.

Which is fine, and dandy and amusing but the About... option in the Help menu has vanished. And I can't make it come back! Does this pass for humour in Seattle?