Re: [libreoffice-users] How to make autocorrect work.

At 15:21 21/04/2014 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
> New to Libre Office writer. I imported a text document that had -- 
> wherever I wanted an en dash. This is listed as an autocorrect. But 
> how do I make it work?

AutoCorrect normally operates as you type new text or modify existing 
text by typing. You control its behaviour at Tools | AutoCorrect 
Options... | Options | Replace dashes - where you can set it to 
operate as you [M]odify or [T]ype text.

> When I save it as a doc file and then load it again I still have --.

Saving and reopening the document doesn't affect anything.  (Oh, and 
I hope, as a declared new user, you will soon learn to use 
LibreOffice's default .odt format instead.)

If you wish to apply such changes to an existing text, you can use 
Format | AutoCorrect | Apply. Note that this affects only paragraphs 
with the Default paragraph style and it changes this paragraph style 
to "Text body" instead - so it won't work more than once unless you 
change the paragraph style back to Default. Note also that 
AutoCorrect makes other changes which you may not want. So it may be 
a good idea either to use Format | AutoCorrect | Apply and Edit 
Changes instead, which enables you to distinguish the changes you 
want and don't want, or to make these changes at an early stage in 
the treatment of any document, so that you can undo any unwanted 
effect manually.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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