Using AutoCorrect
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- Selecting text
- Cutting, copying, and pasting text
- Finding and replacing text and formatting
- Inserting special characters
- Formatting paragraphs
- Formatting characters
- Autoformatting
- Creating numbered or bulleted lists
- Using footnotes and endnotes
- Checking spelling
- Using language tools
- Using the thesaurus
- Hyphenating words
- Using AutoCorrect
- Using word completion
- Using AutoText
- Line numbering
- Undoing and redoing changes
- Tracking changes to a document
- Inserting notes
- Linking to another part of a document
- Working with hyperlinks
- Tips and tricks
Writer's AutoCorrect function has a long list of common misspellings and typing errors, which it corrects automatically. For example, "hte" will be changed to "the". Select Tools > AutoCorrect to open the AutoCorrect dialog. There you can define which strings of text are corrected and how. In most cases, the defaults are fine.
 | AutoCorrect is turned on by default. To turn it off, uncheck Format > AutoFormat > While Typing. |
- To stop Writer from replacing a specific spelling, use Tools > AutoCorrect > Replace, highlight the word pair and click Delete.
- To add a new spelling to correct, type it into the Replace and With boxes and click New.
- See the different pages of the dialog box for the wide variety of other options available to fine-tune AutoCorrect.
| AutoCorrect can be used as a quick way to insert special characters. For example, (c) will be autocorrected to ©. You can add your own special characters. |
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