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April fool's: Automatic Misspellings

We posted yesterday about a prank that we had done on each other here on the Outlook team by changing each other's dictionary autocorrect settings to replace a valid word like 'Hi' with some other funny word like 'Hello World'.   While these types of pranks may happen today on April fool's day, we just want to be clear that you should NOT do this type of thing if it would ever cause somebody harm, or be inappropriate, or violate any bound of conduct in your home or workplace.  On our team, this was a socially acceptable prank, and being software people we readily knew how to fix the entries.  But, please don't try this yourself as it is likely to not be seen as funny by the other person, and you might find yourself regretting that you had done it.

That said, have a fun and safe April fool's day.

The Outlook Team

 

Posted: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:34 AM by outblog
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Programmerman said:

I tried to do this to a cow-orker's computer, but when I got back to mnie, everything was working rong. Please missile me!

# March 31, 2009 9:01 PM

danielfe said:

Just thought I would pass this along, we built an app for Coding4Fun that automates changing AutoCorrect entries!

Video of AutoCorrect going bad in action:

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/coding4fun/april-fools/autocorrect.wmv

How to article and code sample:

http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2006/10/31/912524.aspx

# April 1, 2009 1:18 PM

D1@HQ said:

This is way off this blog subject but can someone direct me to an area I can ask my question or find an answer....

I want to be able to email with a followup automatically setting itself in the recipients tasks without having to click anything.  

Is it possible?

# April 1, 2009 7:48 PM
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