Good morning! My name is Marius Popa, I run OpenOffice.org 3 beta 2, and I want to suggest you to add more effects to be applied on text written in Writer. Thanks in advance. Success!
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Robert Derman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Russell Butler wrote: > >> Robert Derman wrote: >> >>> Russell Butler wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All >>>> >>>> I have become sufficiently annoyed by the behaviour of autocomplete to >>>> consider raising an issue. Being a rather slow typist, I value the use of >>>> autocompletion, though I know many of you turn it off. >>>> >>>> However, if I have a document open, and for some reason look up the >>>> Help files, the word completion list becomes populated with words from the >>>> help file, which then become offered as options. These seem to be rarely >>>> likely to be useful. >>>> >>>> This behaviour is seen in 2.4.1 (and earlier) and persists in 3.0 at >>>> last to the version I have installed, which is Dev300 m25 >>>> >>>> If there is any enthusiasm, I'll raise an issue for it. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your thoughts >>>> >>>> Russell >>>> >>> I would like to see a major change in the way autocomplete works, I think >>> that it should have a PERMANENT dictionary, that stays in memory so that at >>> some point you could turn off the gather words function and have it always >>> refer to your permanent dictionary. >>> >> >> Actually Robert, in looking at the behaviour, I looked up word completion >> in the Help, and there is a suggested work-around which goes part way - to >> enabling such a function, that is to copy your "technical" words to a text >> document, then open that at the beginning of each work session. I guess you >> could then reduce the maximum number of entries to correspond to that number >> although I don't know if the limit works by discarding current entries to >> add more. I don't know that I have ever reached the 500 word limit set as >> default. I normally only write reports of few pages. >> >> Regards >> Rusell >> > The method described above helps, but it still leaves the major > inconvenience of having to go through these steps before EVERY session of > word processing. The gather words function is very dumb in the sense that > it cannot be programmed by the user to ignore things like words out of > titles in all caps, strings with numerals, things like this, > "hinge............$1.29" so that the next time you type hin you get that > string etc. So you end up going into the internal dictionary of > autocomplete and clearing out a lot of junk, very frequently. And if you > turn off gather words, it ends up completely disabling the autocomplete > feature. So what is really needed is to make the internal dictionary > permanent, in the sense that it is not cleared out when you end a word > processing session but is retained for the next session. Somehow I doubt > that that would require a huge amount of re-coding. If this change isn't > made, the autocomplete feature is so limited in usefulness that it might as > well be removed altogether. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Marius Popa
