On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 13:19 +0000, R. G. Newbury wrote: > Yeah,well you have to have a document open for Autocorrect to > appear....which implies, I am sure, that the settings made therein > will only apply to the one document...which is NOT want I want to do, > > AND the exact "feature" is hidden down a scroll-down list under > Options under Autocorrect....Now having the damn thing re-format your > paragraph when you type a number plus period as the first characters > does NOT qualify as 'Autocorrect' in my opinion...expecially as the > first tab under Autocorrect deals with mis-splet ! words....(hmmm, no > autocorrect in Thunderbird)... Here, I didn't have to have a document open. Well, I did have a blank page there... The settings were applied to the program defaults. I closed down OpenOffice.org and re-opened it, and it carried on working as how I'd last set it (not making numbered lists out of numbered items that I'd typed on the page). Yes, it is a bit peculiar as to what's per-document, or not. Yes, it's not brilliantly named, as it's not necessarily a "correction." Other programs might have called that "auto replace." -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
