Good Excel Practical Jokes, Pranks, Mean Tricks, etc.

[joefrench]

Yah have to agree with MorganO. There is a fine line between "joke" and "extortion".

Is it really all that fine?

 

[Oorang]

hahaha Apparently for some people... Yes it is

 

[jyokom]

An easy one that I did to a CoWorker is to autocorrect a common word like "the" to "man I am an ideot" It is so simple, but many people do not know how to undo an autocorrect.

 

[Cbrine]

I'm no slouch when it comes to excel...but I would most likely have a difficult time ID'ing that particular burn...Although if you got me with that I would get you back with stuff that you would never be able to figure out.

 

[jyokom]

You could also add the code:

Selection.Replace What:="the", Replacement:="man I am an ideot", LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
ReplaceFormat:=False

inside a macro.

 

[Cbrine]

The one I like the most would be to remove all the commandbars including the excel menu. I had our IT group doing full rebuilds on systems with that one

(It was actually unintentional, but would work for a great burn)

 

[Joe4]

Well here is my confession.

I once worked for a company for 10 years.
I have a A+ spreadsheets that compared orders with all the raw materials needed for production.

It was only 800 rows in Excel.
I wrote a nasty little code that everytime it was opened, a row was deleted ( very subtle ).

After I left I got a call to come back and fix it, for a flat fee of $500.
Which I did ( hehe ).

That's not a joke, that's just plain unethical, and borderline criminal. It is equivalent to creating a virus.

 

[Oorang]

No borderline about it. It's criminal. It's a simple logic bomb and it's quite prosecutable (as "computer sabotage"). Google "Roger Duronio" for the precedent (he got 97 months and was ordered to 3.1 Million in restitution).

And even if they didn't go after you in criminal court, it would quite easy to make a civil case out of it and sue to recover for damage done. Time lost, loss of reputation, loss of data, on and on. I short... Kiddies do not try that yourself.

 

[spcalan]

I understand what you are saying, but isnt everything in this topic considered borderline criminal?

"creating extra work which equates to a company spending time ( labor $) to fix a problem?

I left out that the company promised me that they were going away from this module I created, so they asked me to delete it permanetly, so I did.
Line by line while most of the functionality was still available.

 

[spcalan]

Not to pick on anyone:


""I had our IT group doing full rebuilds on systems with that one""


but what did that cost the company?