Opening up a fresh new Microsoft Office document hasn't quite been the same without Clippy, the oh-so-helpful little paperclip prompting us with tips and advice. Of course, most of us immediately kicked him off the page, but that never stopped his happy face from popping back up again.
Now thanks to a bit of April Fools' Day fun, Clippy gets his chance to shine again on Office.com.
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When users log into their free Office.com accounts and open up a new document in Word, Excel or PowerPoint, Clippy's big eyes will be there staring back at them.
Here is Microsoft's Clippy in action! It's a free online image maker that allows you to add custom resizable text to images. It operates in HTML5 canvas, so your images are created instantly on your own device. Most commonly, people use the generator to add text captions to established memes, so technically it's more of a meme 'captioner' than a meme maker. As the parody it is, Clippy magnifies what Clipo used to do and now it will appear whenever it want and will tell you anything, no matter what you are doing, it will appear and will tell you a joke, or simply will remind you that he is there.
Take a look at some screenshots of the flashback prank:
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And of course, he's happy to help you compose a tweet as well: