Hi Simon, You are not the only one who loathes this “helpful” feature. I almost threw my Samsung Android phone against a wall and jumped on it in sheer frustration at the moronic “I’m here to help you” auto spelling correction. I was spending as much time correcting their so-called correction as I was typing in text.
On my (almost antique) Galaxy IV, the feature is called “XT9 Predictive Text” described in the manual as: “XT9 is a predictive text system that has next-letter prediction and regional error correction, which compensates for users pressing the wrong keys on QWERTY keyboards. Note: XT9 is only available when ABC mode is selected. XT9 advanced settings are available only if the XT9 field has been selected.” I forget exactly where this is, but it’s hidden somewhere. When you find it and turn it off, your blood pressure will be considerably healthier. There’s an extraordinary arrogance from the OS designers who assume that the user is wrong, and axiomatically, the OS is right. Why don’t these people just accept that I can actually spell, and I know what word I want to use. I neither need not want some bloody machine telling me what I’m thinking. Get the hell out of my life! On a similar vein, Bill bloody Gates decided that dates in Word 2007 MUST fit his favourite format, and there is no way to turn off this “helpful” feature. ARRRRGH! I loathe auto-correct in all its manifestations, and I never use it. Sometimes I wish these programs came with options that allowed people with IQs larger than their shoe sizes to turn off all this unnecessary crap. Live in hope, ... Cheers, John John Pickard john.pick...@bigpond.com From: illustratingshad...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2017 10:34 AM To: Steve Lelievre ; graham stapleton Cc: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: Circular Spreadsheet Software PS I have given up on my Android spell check, sorry for typos. I am beginning to long for the days of the Creed 7B teleprinters, at least they didn't "correct" spelling. Simon Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
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