It's sad that you went to all that trouble. The only thing you had to do was to learn that, when the automatic "correction" was made was to immediately hit Ctrl-z (or Cmd-z on a Mac) or Edit-Undo to reverse the automatic change. Had you consulted the Help, you would have found this under Autocorect - While Typing.
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I must say, I'm a little puzzled myself... > > I'm running LO 4.1.1.2, and after reading this mail, I just tried this > myself, thinking it should be easy. And for some reason, almost nothing > I did prevented LO Writer from automatically capitalizing the first > letter of the word "cat" when I typed the space (or enter) after the > word. > > Things I tried: > > * Turned off the "AutoSpellcheck" button on the toolbar > * Tools | Language | For Selection | None (Do not check spelling) > * Tools | Language | For Paragraph | None (Do not check spelling) > * Tools | Language | For all Text | None (Do not check spelling) > * Tools | Options | Language Settings | Writing Aids | Options | Check > spelling as you type > * Tools | Options | Language Settings | Writing Aids | Options | Check > grammar as you type > * Tools | Options | Language Settings | Writing Aids | Available > language modules -> Unchecked all > > What did finally work was: > > * Tools | AutoCorrect Options | Options | Capitalize first letter of > every sentence -> Unchecked [T] > > Things this shows me (in no particular order): > > * There are too many places that such options can be set. Not only all > the places I found options to twiddle, but also all the other places > where I didn't find any relevant options (but still had to look). > * Trying to find any given option is harder than it should be (as a > consequence of the above). > * It is confusing to the user as to which set of options operates at > any given time (as a consequence of the above). > * There is no easy way to toggle this behaviour on and off in its > entirety, you can only do it for options individually. > > I think the language settings need an overhaul and consolidation, and > at least a way to toggle it all off and on in one shot, for people that > occasionally need to enter some text that should stay verbatim and > uncorrected. > > > Just my thoughts. > > Paul > > > > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 09:04:40 -0700 (PDT) > kajdna <[email protected]> wrote: > > > *My* > > > > My gripe with libreoffice are its "stupid" algorithims that > > constantly find false errors in what I type. > > > > If I type *** as a break between sections I get a bold line > > > > If I type cat --help > > > > I get Cat --(dash)help > > > > Is there ONE place where I can turn off ALL automatic overrides? > > > > If I can't type what I want to type, libreoffice is a deal-breaker. I > > have carefully searched all menus. > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Turn-Off-All-Automated-Functions-tp4119291.html > > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
