The Hall of Tortured Souls is an easter egg in Microsoft Excel 95. To gain access to The Hall of Tortured Souls, you must:
- Open Excel 95 with a blank work sheet.
- Scroll down to the 95th row, select the whole row, and tab over to column B.
- Go to Help/About, hold ctrl-alt-shift, and click on the tech support button.
This process
spawns a window with a
graphical interface quite similar to that of
Doom and
Doom II. You can walk around using the
arrow keys and look up and down using C and D. At the end of the corridor there is a list of the
tortured souls, who are in fact the
programmers who worked on Microsoft Excel. Turn around
180 degrees at this point and type in EXCELKFA (a parody of IDKFA, the
cheat code in Doom for all keys, weapons, and full
ammo). You can now walk through the wall, where you will be confronted with a
zig-zag bridge. If you manage to
traverse this bridge, you will be rewarded with a room containing pictures of the
development team for Excel.