Word Completion for Text Documents

OpenOffice.org collects words that you frequently use in the current session. When you later type the first three letters of a collected word, OpenOffice.org automatically completes the word. If you want, you can also save the current list of collected words so that it can be used in the next session.

If there is more than one word in the AutoCorrect memory that matches the three letters that you type, press Ctrl+Tab to cycle through the available words. To cycle in the opposite direction, press Ctrl+Shift+Tab.

Using word completion

By default, you accept the word completion by pressing the Enter key.
To reject the word completion, continue typing with any other key.

Switching off the word completion

Choose Tools - AutoCorrect - Word Completion .
Clear Enable word completion .

Fine-tuning the word completion

Choose Tools - AutoCorrect - Word Completion .
Select any of the following options:

Inserting an additional space character

Select Append space.

The space character is appended after you type the first character of the next word after the auto-completed word. The space character is suppressed if the next character is a delimiter, such as a full stop or a new line character.

Selecting the accept key

Choose the key to accept the suggested word using the Accept with list box.

Selecting the number of characters

Use the Min. word length box to set the minimum number of characters a word must have to be collected into the list.

Selecting the scope of collected words

Select When closing a document, save the list for later use in other documents.

Now the list is also valid for other documents that you open. When you close the last OpenOffice.org document, the word list is deleted.

If you do not select the checkbox, the list is only valid as long as the current document is open.

If you want the word list to exist longer than the current OpenOffice.org session, save it as a document, as described in the following section.

Working with the word list

If the automatic spellcheck option is enabled, only the words that are recognized by the spellcheck are collected.

Use the word list to always start with a defined set of technical terms for the word completion feature.

Open the text document that contains the terms that you want to use for word completion.

The word completion feature collects the words.
Select all or some of the words in the list.
Use Ctrl+C to copy all selected words into the clipboard. Paste the clipboard into a new document and save it to get a reference list of collected words.

Later you can open the reference list and automatically collect the words, so that the word completion feature starts with a defined set of words.

Word Completion

Index

automatic word completion

completion of words

AutoCorrect function, word completion

word completion

weekdays, automatically completing

months, automatically completing

disabling,word completion

switching off word completion

deactivating,word completion

refusing word completions

rejecting word completions

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