Difference between revisions of "Documentation/OOoAuthors User Manual/Getting Started/Using AutoCorrect"
From Apache OpenOffice Wiki
(Clean up TOC and category references) |
|||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
− | {{GSWriterTOC|Textwork=block| | + | {{Documentation/GSWriterTOC |
+ | |Textwork=block | ||
+ | |ShowPrevNext=block | ||
+ | |PrevPage=Documentation/OOoAuthors User Manual/Getting Started/Setting tab stops and indents | ||
+ | |NextPage=Documentation/OOoAuthors User Manual/Getting Started/Using word completion | ||
+ | }} | ||
==Using AutoCorrect== | ==Using AutoCorrect== | ||
{{:Using AutoCorrect}} | {{:Using AutoCorrect}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[Category:Getting Started (Documentation)]] |
Revision as of 15:12, 6 November 2007
Using AutoCorrect
Writer's AutoCorrect function has a long list of common misspellings and typing errors, which it corrects automatically. For example, "hte" will be changed to "the". Select Tools > AutoCorrect to open the AutoCorrect dialog. There you can define which strings of text are corrected and how. In most cases, the defaults are fine.
- To stop Writer from replacing a specific spelling, use Tools > AutoCorrect > Replace, highlight the word pair and click Delete.
- To add a new spelling to correct, type it into the Replace and With boxes and click New.
- See the different pages of the dialog box for the wide variety of other options available to fine-tune AutoCorrect.
AutoCorrect can be used as a quick way to insert special characters. For example, (c) will be autocorrected to ©. You can add your own special characters. |
AutoCorrect versus table number formats
Dates and numbers in tables may appear to AutoCorrect even when you disable the AutoCorrect function. This is because they have a separate setting. According to raindog469 of ubuntuforms.org:
- [T]the way to prevent it from forcing "November 2009" to "11/01/09" (even though AutoCorrect and AutoFormat are disabled) is to select the whole table cell in which you're entering the text, open Table/Number Format, and set the format to Text ("@"). For some reason, just putting the cursor in the cell is not enough.[1]