The Options tab is where you enable or disable the features you'd like AutoCorrect to perform. If you check AutoInclude, then telling the OOo spellchecker to ignore or add abbreviations or words beginning with two capitals will also add them automatically to the two lists on the Exceptions tab. Likewise, AutoCorrect will fix two initial capitals as a misspelling, but some words actually begin with two capitals, like "OOo" or "KRename," and you don't want those "fixed." Add those words here manually, and you won't be bothered again when you type them.įor these two features to work, you need to go to the Options tab and check the boxes next to Correct TWo INitial CApitals and Capitalize first letter of every sentence. However, you obviously don't want abbreviations to be considered as the end of a sentence, so you can define abbreviations here that will not trigger automatic capitalization. For instance, AutoCorrect normally will detect a period and then automatically capitalize the next word for you, if you fail to do so yourself.
This tab allows you to define exceptions to the rules you set elsewhere in AutoCorrect. If you're a heavy user of OOo, you're going to find this feature indispensable.Įxceptions to AutoCorrect in. If I want to delete it, I select it in the list and press Delete. If I ever want to edit my replacement, I just find it in the list, select it, and make my change in the With textbox. Now whenever I type "Micorsoft" followed by a space or Enter, OOo changes my mistake into the name of our favorite monopoly.įor this to work, you need to go to the Options tab and check the boxes next to Use replacement table. After doing that a couple of times, I went into this window and entered "Micorsoft" in the Replace box, followed by the correct spelling in the With box. As I've been working on this chapter, I found myself typing "Micorsoft" instead of "Microsoft" once too often. I commonly type "teh" instead of "the," "nad" instead of "and," and "inventor of the Internet and computers" instead of "Bill Gates" (you do \1now I'm just kidding about that last one, right?). I'm a decent typist, but there are certain errors I keep making, over and over again. There's that choice thing again!Īutomatically replace common mistakes or abbreviations in. Personally, the very things a lot of people hate are the things that I really love about OOo. There's a lot to do here, and for many readers, these next several paragraphs are going to help them iron out some major annoyances they may have with OOo. The big kahuna, though, is at Tools, AutoCorrect/AutoFormat. The materials on this page are under a Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons license.
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