AutoCorrect still blows me away

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RichardPrincipal
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AutoCorrect still blows me away

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Once I saved my auto correction, but when I updated the newer version of openoffice the auto-corrections file was not replaced, I thought great, then the next version I was in a hurry, I did not save it and the update lost all my auto-corrections, so now I am against ever updating, unless someone says updated does not wipe out your own entries.

A few years ago I noticed the few strange words that some people always seem to spell wrong like in Apache they always type in adn instead of typing in "and", I think 'very strange they always type it in that way'

I can think of a lot more useful auto-corrections like all the days of the week and [days of the month] [months of the year], so if you type in september it always auto-correct to September but why is it some people would prefer To auto-correct from adc to and.

Just recently I have [be] [been] learning some of the short hand symbol of chemical elements , so I thought it would handy to put in more useful auto-corrects, so instead of typing in Magnesium why not have mg auto correct to "Magnesium" maybe even correct mg+ to "Magnesium (Mg)" by using lowercase spelling in the auto-correct, you can still type in Mg and it will not auto-correct to "Magnesium", This might help pre-teenagers learn the symbols to chemical element for later school work if they take on chemistry as a science subject.

I am sure you might think of more useful and interesting auto-corrects [and] [than] having adc change to and.

edit corrections between [ ]
[ oh I was thinking this but forgot to add it in

As F symbol is correct Fluorine (F) and the toxic version is Fluoride.

I had to use f for Fluorine, f+ for Fluorine (F)
f^ for Fluoride and f^+ for Fluoride (F')

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Last edited by RichardPrincipal on Thu Sep 08, 2022 9:59 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Hagar Delest
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That's strange since the autocorrect file is in the user profile and it is not changed by an upgrade (except if you go from 3 to 4 branch.
My autocorrect file is more than 1 year old and I have upgraded several times in between.

Did other settings get reset at the same time? There may have been a broader issue with the whole profile.
Personally, I keep a backup of my profile just in case (beware of the content of the /backup folder in the user profile that can grow very big if you have activated the document backup copy feature).
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As the User Profile contains a lot of user data (configuration choices, backup files, macros, added dictionary words etc) it is kept during an upgrade or reinstall.
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See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.

Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
RichardPrincipal
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OK "how to geek" helped me with.

Now I just go Tools -> Options -> openoffice or libreoffice -> paths.

[I will give both office a update later after I do a file copy and see how it goes]
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As you can see I have updated both *office programs and did not need to use any of the back up.

Maybe to make this topic more useful I should make a suggestion to the suggestion link
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Maybe the information you looked for was also in the tutorial: Tutorial] The OpenOffice User Profile.
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