On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 20:10 +0100, Ulf Benjaminsson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have two suggestions that would make life with OO.o a lot easier.
> 
> OpenOffice should light up a symbol whenever it decides to auto-do anything
> in my text. This symbol should be active, so that I can click on it to be
> presented with a menu; allowing me to revert the change, and possible even
> let me have quick access to the "global" setting for that rule, so I can
> turn it off entirely.
> 
> Also, if I manually edit anything that has previously been auto-formated, my
> edit should override the auto-rules completly (for that particular
> instance).
> 
> Example; I start a sentence with an URL. www.foo.bar. In openoffice this
> would keep changing back to Www.foo.bar no matter how many times I erase and
> rewrite the first "w". Then, when I finish the URL, it will turn into an
> active link - and there is no easy way to revert it!
> 
> Most of the time I do want these rules to be auto-enforced, but I shouldn't
> be forced to turn them off/on globaly every time I need an exception.

Hi Ulf,

There is a very simply way of doing what you want without changing the
globabl options all the time. The simplest way is that whenever OOo 
applies an auto-format (eg. hyperlink, capital letter etc), simply hit
the undo (Ctrl-z) option. This will turn of the auto-format. So for your
example above - type "www." and then it capitalises - hit Ctrl-z and it
reverts to lowercase. Keep typing the url and hit space, hyperlink then
appears, Ctrl-z and it reverts to normal text.

Regards
Jonathon
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