Transfering games onto excel

[rcl1]

Someone sent me a number of games including pacman and sonic. They are the full games but the have been dropped onto an excel spreadsheet. Any ideas how you can transfer full games onto an excel spreadsheet?
Thanks in advance.

[ACtheTROLL]

I've seen a rubber band ......
but I've never seen this one before ... logigally a game is just some files ... and excel allows for embedded file ....

but what possessed whoever to do this ... how big is the file???

all you need do is drag the file into a folder

[rcl1]

sonic is 1.48mb. by placing them into excel, they can be sent, stored and played in work being undetected ie lots of emails dont get through when games are attached but all excel attachments can get in under t the radar. they dont need downloading. I am a bit of a technophobe so cant really explain better than that. I f i want to play games in work (on my lunch hour of course) then i can only do soi with the ones i have on excel hence the reason formy question. I would like to move more games onto excel so i have a better choice. I can email you the game if that will help show you what i am talking about.

[ChuckFickens]

thats an interesting way of getting passed the mail filter I guess

Wouldn't it be easier to simply change the file extension from .exe (which the game would have) to .exl (which excel files have) then the filter would think it's a excel sheet and let it through, all you have to do then is change it back when you want to run it.

[ACtheTROLL]

what twisted hacker thought that one up?
now you explain ... it makes perfectly devious sense.
(I'll be putting steps in at work to quash that .... tomorrow!! ;)

I'd like to see it
ac_troll<remove>@yahoo<remove>.co.uk
just remove the <remove>s

If I'm right ... it will be only older single file games that don't actually need a complex install ... which these days is going to restrict your options ....

I assume it's 1 or 2 games per file?

I'm thinking you could use a USB memory stick ... but if you let me see one I'll confirm

[rcl1]

Thanks for your help, ac, you should now have these games so hopefully my question will now make a lot moire sense. As i mentioned, i am not really a pc person so may not have explained myself properly. Thanks again.

[squarebear]

AC it's only simple flash games. We get sent a few through our mail.

They aren't exactly Call OF Duty 4 or Gran Turismo.

[ACtheTROLL]

yes I see now

for anyone who's interested
http://ryangoodman.net/blog/index.php/2007/01/ 16/embed_a_swf_file_in_excel

and a few game sites (3 of 100000000s)
http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/
http://elegans.imbb.forth.gr/games/
http://www.humor4you.com/games.asp

when I've seen this in the past it's either been xmas lights or this
http://fun.from.hell.pl/2003-11-24/bubblewrap. swf we do as chuck suggests ... or an encrypted zip (no extension) inside an ordinary zip
(our filter is good ... it reads headers)


it was late .... and I'm stooopid!

[rcl1]

AC - got as far as pint 5 but i dont get the option 'custom' on the alphabetic tab. My first option id 'Name'.

Thanks for the links but all games websites at work are blocked which is why i wanted to sneak games in via excel.

Think i will give up and leave it to the experts. Thanks again.