Hi there Eike
Many thanks for taking the time to steer me to the solution to my problem.
There is an awful lot of Open Office I have yet to explore obviously!
John B

Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:44:29 +0200
From: Eike Rathke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [users] Calc - Autocorrect

Hi John,

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:23:13 +0100, John Barman wrote:

> An example of what I mean in more detail, is if I have a cell
> in a spreadsheet formatted 'text', and the first entry in the column
> for "J. Smith" reads "J. Smith-Order No. 123456 etc", then every entry
> for "J. Smith"  after that initially completes the same full entry
> [...]
> the option to turn the feature on or off..

is either Tools.CellContents.AutoInput or to precede the input with
a leading single quote ', which doesn't become part of the cell content.

  Eike

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