There is this really annoying feature that OpenOffice Writer offers that I couldn’t figure out how to turn off. It was so annoying that I figured that I would write about it here, just to help out the few souls who need to turn this thing off like I did.
The feature is called “Word Completion” or othewise known as AutoComplete, or auto complete. What ever floats your boat. The annoying thing about this feature is that it, obviously, completes words for you. Does it accurately complete words for you? Not really. What it does do is create a huge number of misspelled words in whatever document you are working on. I was working on something this afternoon and kept wondering why there were all these strange words with weird endings. They all had those squiggly red lines under them indicating they were spelled incorrectly. I finally figured out that the word completion feature was causing this and that I needed to disable it.
Okay, how did I do that? 3 easy steps.
Open OpenOffice Writer and click on Tools and then AutoCorrect Options...
When the AutoCorrect box pops up, click on the Word Completion tab
Then, hit “OK” and you should be good to go. Does this help?
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Oh thank you, thank you. If I had had to endure one more suggestion that when typing “stan” it might be my intention to complete it with the word “standarfds” (yes, “fds” at the end) I was going to pitch my laptop out a window!
Saved me some time, thanks dude. If Google had put yours first it would have saved me another minute or two.
Thank you so much. I’m trying to wean myself off of MS Word, but I had just copied all of my text from Open Office and pasted it into Word because I just can’t write when little auto completion tags kept popping up as I was typing. It’s like having the most annoying person in the world standing right behind me, whispering random words ever few seconds. Who thought that was a good idea?
Thank you so much for making it easy to disable.
Thank you for posting this. You’re right, it was really annoying! I just wanna type my paper up and turn that baby in
Thanks so much. I wonder for whom this autocomplete feature could ever benefit?
This is really helpful tip. I was looking for this tip on many websites. Your explanation is simple and solved my problem of this annoying auto complete feature.Thanks.
thank you thank you thank you