On 06 May 2005, Caleb Marcus asked about AutoComplete

When I am typing, Writer sometimes suggests words by showing them highlighted in blue. There are two things I would like to know:

1. What is this feature called?
2. How do I use it? (how do I insert the suggested word)

Daniel Carrera answered on 08 May 2005

Hi Marcus,

It's called AutoCorrect. You can accept the suggestion either by pressing Enter (or possibly End, Space or Right-Arrow). AutoCorrect is very powerful. For example, it looks at words within your current document and uses them to make suggestions.

Go to Tools > AutoCorrect/AutoFormat

There you'll be able to fine-tune AutoCorrect. For example:

1. On the "Word Completion" tab, you can tell OOo which key you want to use to accept achange, and a few other options. For example, I set my OOo to suggest the word as a tool-tip.
2. On the "Replace" tab, you can add your own replace patterns. For example, suppose you write the world "internationalization" a lot. You can set OOo so that whe you write i18n, OOo automatically replaces it by "internationalization".

Cheers,
Daniel.

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