Den 2006-07-20 10:12:40 skrev Alex Zachopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:29 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote:
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:07 am, Johnny Andersson wrote:
Den 2006-07-19 17:26:45 skrev Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:28 am, Johnny Andersson wrote:
Den 2006-07-19 15:58:20 skrev Immanuel CRC Office

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Gilles SICHE wrote:
Good morning,
 thank you for your answers about minimum requirements.
 I have another question.
In OOo 2.0.3, when you use the "replace" function (eg : "abotu" will

be

turned into "about"), if the word to be replaced is followed
immediately by
a dot, the replacement will not take place.
In OOo 2.0.2, on the contrary, the dot does not stop the replacement
from
taking place.
I have looked into Tools/AutoCorrect but haven't been able to find

any

box
to tick or untick.
 Thank you in advance,
 Gilles Siche

Gilles:

I have 2.0.3 and I cannot replicate what you say is happening.

Perhaps I

didn't do it correct?

I tried: abotu. abotu and abotu
I did find / replace and with both replace and replace all they all
changed to about. Is this not what is happening to you?

Crystle

I think Gilles was talking about Auto correction rather than
find/replace,
but maybe I'm wrong.
I can't try this myself since I still run 1.1.5 due to my old and slow
PC.

Johnny

     The problem is in Tools > AutoCorrect > Replace. It is not in
Find/Replace (Control+F).
The function of the Replace tab under AutoCorrect is to replace a commonly misspelled word with the correct spelling. It does not replace
parts
of a word. Furthermore, it only works when a space is inserted after the word. So, this sentence would not be changed by it: "This is what it is
all
abotu." (Try typing this sentence in Writer without the quotes, and you
will
see.)

Dan

The funny thing is that "This is what it is  all abotu." actually IS
corrected with OpenOffice.org 1.1.5! I can't say if this is the case with OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 since I don't have that version installed on my PC, but the original message told us that this works in OpenOffice.org 2.0.2,
so I have no reason not to believe it. So why does this not work in
OpenOffice.org 2.0.3?

However, the obvious workaround is of course to type the following, in the
example above:
This is what it is  all abotu [BACKSPACE].

This requires, however, that you realized that you actually spelled "about
" wrong...

When I get a faster PC I might want to upgrade to OpenOffice.org 2.0 so I am interested in having this corrected to the way it was in OpenOffice.org
2.0.2 and older versions. What is the main reason for NOT correcting a
word when it's ended with a dot (or any of ,.;:?!)?

Best regards

Johnny

I think we have found a bug if not a regression. Using Linux, I have both
1.1.4 and 2.0.3 installed.
     1.1.4 replace abotu to about at the end of the sentence.
     2.0.3 marked abotu as misspelled rather than replacing the word.

That means it is time to raise an issue which I am about to do.


Just check with 1.1.5 and 2.0.3 and in both cases "Abuot" and Abuot."
were treated as separate spelling errors. In each case the incorrect
spelling was flagged and the context menu offered to add each to the
autocorrect list. So there may be more to this than meets the eye.

The autocorrect list doesn't have anything to do with the dictionaries used for spell check, more than you might be able to fill the autocorrect list in more than one way. When you type a space, the word you just typed are checked against the autocorrect list. If there is no space (i.e. if you put a dot there instead), no check against the list is done, as it seems, in 2.0.3. This has nothing to do with the spell checker. A word can be marked as wrong spelled even if the wrong spelled word is not available in the autocorrect list.

At least this is how it appears to work, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I also (finally) tested this with 2.0,3 (yes, I know that I don't have it, so I used my girlfriend's laptop, where it's installed) and yes, it doersn't work like it does in 1.1.5. Maybe another reason for me to keep using 1.1.5 even when I get a faster PC... (only kidding, don't worry...)


Works fine for me: NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha 4 Patch 1 on MacOS X Tiger 10.4.5.
Both 'abotu' and 'abotu.' (notice the dot) are auto-corrected.

Is NeoOffice 2.0 the same as OpenOffice 2.0.3? Obviously it works fine with OpenOffice 2.0.2 (if we believe those guys who said so), so maybe your version corresponds to one of the OpenOffice versons 2.0.0, 2.0.1 or 2.0.2?


Johnny



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