Microsoft Word April Fool's Joke

Microsoft Word April Fool\
This is a simple, fun, and mostly harmless joke that you can play on people on April Fool's Day. It will (hopefully!) drive them crazy as the words that they are typing start to change into strange and bizarre new words and phrases. If you have access to someone's Word program on their computer then you are all set to go with this prank.
 
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With Microsoft Word open click on Tools -> AutoCorrect Options.
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Dec 11, 2011. 1:37 PMTN777 says:
Very clever.
Dec 10, 2011. 4:07 PMTN777 says:
To change it, do you put what you changed and type what it should say into the "change to" box? Just curous. Thanks to any one who can tell me.
Dec 10, 2011. 4:05 PMTN777 says:
Funny prank, can you change it back to normal?
Jul 9, 2011. 3:08 PMevilmadcow says:
why not you make each space say pickle?
Jan 30, 2011. 2:11 PMpatriots8888 says:
my friend had to type up a report and i saw the first couple words so on his computer i made it so the computer gave him a death threat!
May 31, 2011. 8:27 PMtriton37 says:
Ha ha,dats funneh.
Apr 7, 2011. 9:54 AMbishopdante says:
I've always hated microsoft word's meddling ways, this pretty much sums it up.

EG: Why does everything have to have a capital letter after a full stop?!

I had a call from an irate client a few years back who'd got a dose of word macro virus doom which did this to him in spades. Classic. He was going *crazy*.
Mar 31, 2009. 10:34 PMdodo91 says:
i made it so it looks like im talking to the computer!
Dec 20, 2010. 1:00 PMknexguy92 says:
after i saw your comment i tried it too, and i convinced my friends that my computer was alive! lol. only one comment in over a year!!! happy christmas!
Apr 29, 2010. 1:06 PMjoeofloath says:
A few years ago this was on every computer in school. Someone had coded a macro that changed it on every PC they loaded, so every time you wrote 'The' it became 'Banana'. Hilarity ensued.
Apr 5, 2010. 11:42 AMSaturn V says:
HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a "friend" who is on my bad side, and I'm goning to hack his school computer and msake his last name something I probably shouldn't post here.
SWEET REVENGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 30, 2010. 4:47 PMdanielemur says:
i have done the same thing and it drove my family cra-z.
Nov 19, 2009. 10:22 PMOryctolagus habilis says:
Great idea!  Can't you save custom dictionaries in Word?  I know that you can with the Autocomplete function on my smart phone.  It would speed up applying the prank -- if you only have access to the victim's computer for a few minutes -- & simplify cleaning up afterwards, if you could make a "replacement" dictionary with hundreds of substitutions. Then save the regular one & swap filenames.
Jun 29, 2009. 4:40 AMRobertwan says:
I usually tend to change the word "the" to the word "pickle". Hilarity ensues.
Mar 24, 2009. 11:58 AMjetsmiley123 says:
how do you change that back to normal? really funny though 4/5
Mar 31, 2009. 12:43 AMDascooby says:
For Mac just go to Tools-> Autocorrect
Mar 30, 2009. 1:17 PMfwjs28 says:
visual basic...enough said :P
Mar 24, 2009. 12:11 PMdchall8 says:
That is good.
Mar 23, 2009. 3:54 PMdrmjj55 says:
very clever idea 3 stars!!!

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