Through the use of online tutorials and a lot of trial and error, I have discovered the following rules apply to valid entries in the Autocorrect DocumentList.xml :
- HTML Entities (special characters) are Unicode HEX
- entries cannot include smart quotes double or single (apostrophes)
- entries cannot include double quotes, except those required for formatting
- regardless of the order you put them into the xml document, they will be sorted alphabetically (by error) in the Autocorrect list inside OO
- Although the original .dat file has no line breaks, LFCR (line feed carriage return or line break) does not affect whether or how entries appear in the AC list in OO
- Regardless of installation path, the relevant .dat file is found in a folder called:user\Autocorr\
Though much, if not all of this may seem as if someone capable of editing the XML document in the first place should have already know it, I didn't and someone else out there might not know it either.
The tutorial I used as my guide can be found here: raywoodcockslatest.blogspot.com/2010/05/importing-microsoft-word-autocorrect.html
The programs I used to achieve the migration are 7zip, Notepad++, and LibreCalc.