[ubuntu-za] Libre Office Auto Correct features are destroying me

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Mon 23 Apr 2012 15:10:10 SAST, ubuntupunk at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Walter
>
> Thanks, calligrawords was the one I was looking for. :)
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:01 PM, William Walter Kinghorn
> <williamk at dut.ac.za <mailto:williamk at dut.ac.za>> wrote:
>
>     Hi David,
>
>     "alternative Linux wordprocessors"
>
>     in Ubuntu
>
>     Abiword - efficient, featureful word processor with collaboration
>
>     calligrawords - word processor for the Calligra Office Suite
>
>     William
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>     ubuntupunk at gmail.com <mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com>
>     [ubuntupunk at gmail.com <mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com>]
>     Sent: 23 April 2012 14:59
>     To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
>     Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Libre Office Auto Correct features are
>     destroying me
>
>     On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Frank Sokolic
>     <sokolic at worldonline.co.za
>     <mailto:sokolic at worldonline.co.za><mailto:sokolic at worldonline.co.za <mailto:sokolic at worldonline.co.za>>>
>     wrote:
>
>     When this happens to me I press ctrl-z immediately after I enter
>     press at the end a paragraph. This should undo the autoformatting
>     of the paragraph. It's not an elegant solution, I know, but at
>     least will allow you to keep the paragraphs from being autoformatted.
>
>     Frank.
>
>
>
>     ________________________________
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>     From: ubuntupunk at gmail.com
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>     Sent:2012-04-23 14:18:24
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>     Cc:
>     Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Libre Office Auto Correct features are
>     destroying me
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Mark Widdicombe
>     <markwiddicombe at gmail.com
>     <mailto:markwiddicombe at gmail.com><mailto:markwiddicombe at gmail.com
>     <mailto:markwiddicombe at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>     On 23 April 2012 11:34, ubuntupunk at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com><mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com>> <ubuntupunk at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com><mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     Hi all,
>
>     Sorry to bother with this issue, but the lack of user-friendliness
>     in LibreOffice is killing me.
>
>     Whenever I try to write up a document with numbering like so
>
>     1.1
>
>     1.2
>
>     1.3
>
>
>     LO insists on autoformating the paragraphs incorrectly. There
>     appears to be no way of turning off this feature in Tools > Options.
>
>
>     More evidence of the "Dark Side' of Open Source
>
>     D.
>
>
>     Go to Tools-->Autocorrect Options-->Options, then uncheck 'Apply
>     numbering - symbol'
>
>     Regards,
>     Mark
>
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>     Autocorrect options is missing. This no more a feature in 3.4.4?
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>     Okay, dark side has been conquered, was looking in Tools >>
>     Options, now feature appears under Tools >> Autocorrect Options.
>     Is there any way of making this persistent so I don't end up in a
>     recursive universe, always going through this problem and having
>     somebody point out that the feature is x y z?
>
>     Also usually happens on a deadline
>
>     BTW am downloading WP8 and looking for alternative Linux
>     wordprocessors.
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Have you tried Shift+Enter?

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Bruce

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