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These automatisms suck!!
OpenOffice is configured in standard to execute, while typing a text, automatical formatting tasks. Those automatisms can be amazing or boring - especially because they can occure when you don't expect them.
You have two solutions: turn them off or learn to know them and domesticate them.
Turn them ALL off/on: under Format-AutoFormat-While Typing.
Turn some of them off/on: under Tools-AutoCorrect/Autoformat.
To USE them you have to know them and first recognize them, so...
How to recognize them?
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When I type |
I get |
caused by |
module |
|
|
DNA |
And |
the replacement table |
All |
|
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XImport |
Ximport |
|
(3) |
All |
|
coordination |
Coordination |
Capitalize first letter of every sentence |
(3) |
All |
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It was excl. on this day |
The lowercase won't be replaced by a capital though there is a dot and I check the option "Capitalize first letter of every sentence" in the AutoFormat. |
the exceptions table |
(2) |
Writer only |
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*Hello* _world_ |
Hello world |
Automatic bold and underline |
(3) |
All |
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www.openoffice.org |
The URL recognition |
(3) |
All |
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1st, 2nd, 4th |
1st, 2nd, 4th |
The AutoFormat of the cardinal numbers |
(3) |
All |
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1/2 1/4 3/4 |
½ ¼ ¾ |
The AutoFormat of |
(3) |
All |
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The man -- yes, him! |
The man – yes, him! |
Replace dashes |
(3) |
All |
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<2_spaces> |
The second space doesn't appear |
Ignore double spaces |
(3) |
All |
|
1 bottle of milk <Return> |
1. bottle of milk |
Apply numbering |
(3) |
Writer only |
|
---<Return> ===<Return> ___<Return> |
horizontal lines created |
Apply border |
(3) |
Writer only |
|
+---+---+ |
a table |
Create table |
(3) |
Writer only |
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My title |
My title |
Use styles |
(3) |
Writer only |
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- one |
|
Replace bullets |
(3) |
Writer only |
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" |
« or an other typographical quote |
Custom quotes |
(4) |
Writer only |
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Int |
Int|roduction| |
Word completion |
(5) |
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1.1 |
01/01/03 |
Number recognition |
(6) |
Writer only |
(2) Menu Tools-AutoCorrect/AutoFormat, tabpage [Exceptions]
(3) Menu Tools-AutoCorrect/AutoFormat, tabpage [Options]
(4) Menu Tools-AutoCorrect/AutoFormat, tabpage [Custom quotes]
(5) Menu Tools-AutoCorrect/AutoFormat, tabpage [Word completion]
(6) Menu Tools-Options-Text document-Table-Input in table-Number recognition
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