Microsoft Word Fail

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Comment by Ralph
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Comment by L

That was where my mind went, too!

Is’ll. LOL

 
 
Comment by pannonica
Comment by hall monitor

No wonder school students don’t know how to type grammatically correct papers anymore.

Hall Monitor
http://detentionslip.org

 
 
Comment by alejo699

That is AWESOME. I is’ll begin using that term immediatedly.

 
Comment by lj

the only thing microsoft could make that doesn’t suck is a vacuum.

Comment by L

If it was a Microsoft vacuum, it probably wouldn’t suck enough. Therefore, it would suck more. :)

 
 
 
Comment by Jack

Reminds me of a similar Word fail: I had typed in “9:00 AM” on a schedule, and Word wanted to change it to “9:00 ARE”!

 
Comment by Laura

Wow. Microsoft Word has tried to un-correct my grammar before, but not THAT badly!

 
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Comment by Vickie

I wonder what version(s) of Microsoft Word they use. I can never reproduce anything like that.

Comment by AJ

Photoshopizzle fake-izzle fo’shizzle…not a chance this one’s real.

 
 
Comment by Jennifer Robinson

Actually this is for real. I was using Micro Word 2003 professional edition. Editing the company blog and it popped up.

 
Comment by Kierkegaard

“Photoshopizzle fake-izzle fo’shizzle…not a chance this one’s real.”

You can reproduce this one using Microsoft Word 2003. I don’t know what the whole sentence was, but if you type in the fragment and check it with the grammar check you’ll get the exact recommendation shown:

what and when is a real life saver, but you’ll

Apparently it’s Microsoft Word Snoop-Dogg Version 2DoubleOhThree.

Comment by Allison L

I tried it on Word 2007, and yes, is’ll is in the his’ll.

 
 
Comment by You suck

To be fair, the sentence you’re trying to write is wrong to begin with, so you’re also a fucking moron. congratulations.

Comment by Jennifer Robinson

You don’t even know the entire sentence. It isn’t all there.

Here’s the full sentence.

Having software to track who was served what and when is a real life saver, but you’ll also need information on the eligibility status of each family.

Feel free to explain to me what’s wrong with the sentence. Other than the fact that its a bit clunky.

Quick to judge, and a little harsh man. Haha.

 
Comment by Undrallio

If I may say so myself, you’re the fucking moron. It was previously stated in the comments that it’s a sentence FRAGMENT. A fragment is a piece of something, a sentence fragment isn’t a complete sentence, there’s still more to be added to it.

Congratulations on winning the “spoke too soon and can’t shove my foot in my mouth any further” award.

 
Comment by Lita.

If you want to be picky, you should have capitalized ‘congratulations’. ;]

 
 
Comment by arkz

heheh can be done by changeing the grammer rules and stuffs

 
Comment by BlasterQ

it’s amazing how people would jump at every opportunity to bash microsoft and then keep using their products everyday.

 
Comment by Bostonian

Sorry to burst your bubble guys but you can add certain phrases or words to the WORD dictionary… so that it comes up when you want to correct something. It wasn’t a WORD ERROR it was the human error

On the other side… wicked funny

 
Comment by Banshee

I once was reviewing a contract where someone had accepted the default spell check option. This changed the word indemintor to inseminator, as in “your company, the inseminator, agrees to …”!

I rejected the contract - I was not sure exactly what I was agreeing to!

 
Comment by Lucas

Oh… that’s one great epic fail for Microsoft!

 
Comment by Boob Biter
 
Comment by The Computer Savior

OK, guys… let’s stop the flaming.

I just reproduced this exact error in MS Word 2003 when I copied and pasted the entire text. I did not, however get the error when I only pasted the sentence fragment from the post above that.

This is NOT a bad addition to the “custom” dictionary as someone suggested (though you COULD do that, if you wanted); it’s an error BY MICROSOFT in their grammar checker, and apparently not fixed through service pack 3, which I have installed.

 
Comment by Anon

After I had word correct it to is’ll, it then wanted to correct that to are’ll.

 
Comment by jannneee

You change it, and then it changes it again to “are’ll”

WTF!!!

 
Comment by Me

You can make your own definitions… this wasn’t a microsoft fail it was a user fail…
I’m not a microsoft fan, but it’s that obvious

Comment by Nik

I tried this with Microsoft Word as well, never having changed anything to do with grammar (I always just turn grammar check off anyway), and I got the same mistake.

Microsoft fail.

 
 
Comment by E--S

if you change “is” to “has”, you can make has’ll

 
 
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