Re: [libreoffice-users] Turn Off All Automated Functions

It's sad that you went to all that trouble. The only thing you had to do
was to learn that, when the automatic "correction" was made was to
immediately hit Ctrl-z (or Cmd-z on a Mac) or Edit-Undo to reverse the
automatic change. Had you consulted the Help, you would have found this
under Autocorect - While Typing.


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Paul <paulsteyn1@afrihost.co.za> wrote:

> Well, I must say, I'm a little puzzled myself...
>
> I'm running LO 4.1.1.2, and after reading this mail, I just tried this
> myself, thinking it should be easy. And for some reason, almost nothing
> I did prevented LO Writer from automatically capitalizing the first
> letter of the word "cat" when I typed the space (or enter) after the
> word.
>
> Things I tried:
>
> * Turned off the "AutoSpellcheck" button on the toolbar
> * Tools | Language | For Selection | None (Do not check spelling)
> * Tools | Language | For Paragraph | None (Do not check spelling)
> * Tools | Language | For all Text | None (Do not check spelling)
> * Tools | Options | Language Settings | Writing Aids | Options | Check
>   spelling as you type
> * Tools | Options | Language Settings | Writing Aids | Options | Check
>   grammar as you type
> * Tools | Options | Language Settings | Writing Aids | Available
>   language modules -> Unchecked all
>
> What did finally work was:
>
> * Tools | AutoCorrect Options | Options | Capitalize first letter of
>   every sentence -> Unchecked [T]
>
> Things this shows me (in no particular order):
>
> * There are too many places that such options can be set. Not only all
>   the places I found options to twiddle, but also all the other places
>   where I didn't find any relevant options (but still had to look).
> * Trying to find any given option is harder than it should be (as a
>   consequence of the above).
> * It is confusing to the user as to which set of options operates at
>   any given time (as a consequence of the above).
> * There is no easy way to toggle this behaviour on and off in its
>   entirety, you can only do it for options individually.
>
> I think the language settings need an overhaul and consolidation, and
> at least a way to toggle it all off and on in one shot, for people that
> occasionally need to enter some text that should stay verbatim and
> uncorrected.
>
>
> Just my thoughts.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 09:04:40 -0700 (PDT)
> kajdna <palmsprings08@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > *My*
> >
> > My gripe with libreoffice are its "stupid" algorithims that
> > constantly find false errors in what I type.
> >
> > If I type *** as a break between sections I get a bold line
> >
> > If I type cat --help
> >
> > I get Cat --(dash)help
> >
> > Is there ONE place where I can turn off ALL automatic overrides?
> >
> > If I can't type what I want to type, libreoffice is a deal-breaker. I
> > have carefully searched all menus.
> >
> >
> >
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>
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