OpenOffice.org 2, Firefox, and Thunderbird for Windows All in One [Electronic resources]

1.

Request the AutoCorrect Dialog Box

Select

Tools, AutoCorrect from the menu to display the

AutoCorrect dialog box. It is from this dialog box that you control the way AutoCorrect operates on your words. Click the

Replace tab to display the

Replace page if it's not already displayed.

2.

Scroll to See Replacements

Scroll down the list to see all the replacements that Writer will make on your behalf. Many of the replacements replace common misspellings, such as

believe for when you accidentally type

beleiv .

3.

Delete an Entry

If you want Writer to stop making one of the replacements, select that entry in the list and click the

Delete button to the right of the dialog box. For example, you may be writing a book and want to designate your headings using a common format such as A-heads, B-heads, C-heads, and so on, indicating each succeeding level of subheadings throughout the text. If you prefix your third-level headings with (c), Writer immediately replaces the (c) with the copyright symbol, unless you delete that entry from the table.

4.

Type a New Value

To add your own AutoCorrect entries, click the

Replace text box and type your value there. This will be the value you want Writer to replace.

5.

Type a New Replacement

Type the value you want to replace the other one with in the

With text box. Click the

New button that appears to the right of the dialog box when you finish the entry.

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You can change any entry in the table by selecting it, changing either the

Replace or the

With word, and then clicking the

Replace button.

6.

View Exceptions

Click the

Exceptions tab to display the

Exceptions page.

7.

Type an Exception

If you regularly use a lowercase abbreviation that you don't want Writer to capitalize, type the exception abbreviation in the

Abbreviations text box. If you regularly use a word with two initial capital letters, such as

QBasic , type that exception in the

Words with TWo INitial CApitals text box.

8.

Change the Options

Click the

Options tab to display the

Options page. Scroll through the list of options that Writer uses for its AutoCorrect corrections. Instead of entering an exception, for example, for

QBasic on the

Exceptions page, you might elect to uncheck the option labeled

Correct TWo INitial CApitals so that Writer stops trying to correct all such entries.

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Two columns appear, labeled

M and

T , next to most of the options. Keep the

T column checked for options you want automatically made as you type. Keep the

M option checked if you want the option to be applied when you select

Format, AutoFormat, Apply from the menu to manually autocorrect a document.

9.

Modify Quotes

Click the

Custom Quotes tab to display the

Custom Quotes page.

10.

Change the Quotes Writer Uses

You can change the quotes that Writer uses when you open or close either single quotes or double quotes (regular quotation marks). To use a different start quote, for example, when you type an opening straight quote mark, click the straight quote button labeled

Start quote and select a new quote from the symbols that appear. More than likely, you'll be replacing a straight quote with a curly quote. You can replace all four kinds of quotation marks used by Writer on the

Custom Quotes page.

11.

Modify Word Completion

Click the

Word Completion tab to display the dialog box's

Word Completion page. Here, you work with word completion entries to modify the way Writer completes your typing for you (such as offering

additional when you type add).

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If you don't want Writer to complete words automatically as you type, you can turn this feature off. Click to disable the

Enable word completion check box in the

Word Completion page of the

AutoCorrect dialog box.

12.

Remove a Word

If you want Writer to stop completing a certain word for you, click to select the word and click the

Delete Entry button.

NOTE

When you're typing in a document, the default method for accepting a word completion is by pressing

Enter . If you don't want to accept the completion, just keep typing.

13.

Change Word Completion Acceptance

If you want to change the character used to accept a completed word, click to select either

End, Enter, Space , or

Right from the

Accept with list. For example, if you select

End , when you type add and Writer replaces the word with

additional , you'll have to press the

End key to accept the suggestion; otherwise, Writer erases the suggestion and lets you complete the word.

The other options on the

Word Completion page enable you to request an automatic space after a completed word and show the suggested word as a ToolTip instead of having Writer complete the word at your cursor's position.

When you finish making changes to the

Word Completion page, click

OK to close the dialog box and return to your document.