On 11 February 2011 14:47, Manfred J. Krause
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 20:16, T. R. Valentine wrote:
>> Using LO on WinXP
>>
>> The very useful AutoCorrect function is something I would like to
>> have, but I don't want to have to manually insert all the 'Replace'
>> and 'With' entries (Replace tab). The same goes for the list of
>> 'Exception's (Exceptions tab).
>>
>> In the ..LibreOffice 3\Basis\share\autocorr directory are the
>> following files (installed by LO):
>> acor_en-AU.dat
>> acor_en-GB.dat
>> acor_en-US.dat
>> acor_en-ZA.dat
>>
>> (i.e., Australian English, UK English, US English, and South African
>> English). This corresponds to the languages in AutoCorrect which have
>> entries for both replacements and exceptions.
>>
>>
>> I copied the UK English and named it
>> acor_en-CA.dat
>> -- which ought to be the proper name for Canadian English. But when I
>> look at the AutoCorrect dialogue box, on the Replace tab, it remains
>> empty.
>>
>> I got completely out of all LO applications (I don't use the pre-load
>> executable) and reopened Wrtier. I even rebooted, just to be sure.
>> Still empty.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Remove the renamed file <acor_en-CA.dat> from <...\LibreOffice
> 3\Basis\share\autocorr>.
> Then add <acor_en-CA.dat> to your user folder <autocorr>
> (path: <...\LibreOffice\3\user\autocorr>).

The solution is to copy the preferred AutoCorrect file -- I used
..LibreOffice 3\Basis\share\autocorr\acor_en-GB.dat -- to (Win XP):

... Documents and Settings\[UserName]\Application
Data\LibreOffice\3\user\autocorr\acor_en-CA.dat

It does not seem to matter if the acor_en-CA.dat (which was a copy,
anyway) remains in the
..LibreOffice 3\Basis\share\autocorr\  directory.



-- 
T. R. Valentine
Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care.
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and clothes.' -- Erasmus

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