Thank you Mark, for coming to the rescue here to address Ellen's actual question. Most excellent.
Mel On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 00:13 -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Ellen Mably <embiol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When open office tries to finish a word for me, occasionally it's what I > > want, but I don't know how to select that . . . > > I think this is what you meant... I usually turn it off because it > gets in the way when entering text in spreadsheets. > > > From the OpenOffice.org built-in help: > > 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 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. > > To Accept/Reject a 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. > > To Switch off the Word Completion > 1. Choose Tools - AutoCorrect Options - Word Completion. > 2. Clear Enable word completion . > > -Mark C. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
