formatting; hyphens, dashes and SpellCheck

[Ken <fc...@aol.com.INVALID>]

I have simply lost track of formatting changes.  I want to undo the lot of them and start over. Particularly I want to turn off Spell Check and restore the hyphen-to-dash feature, and I DON'T want automatic bulleting or paragraph numbering. Community forums aren't helpful because there are a million posts up there, most of which have nothing to do with my problem and most of the rest involve a different computer or a different mistake someone made, and when I do get to a question that looks like mine, the solution given there doesn't work.  I just want to go back to start. What do I do?  I just downloaded and installed Open Office 4.1.11 on my computer, which has Windows 10.  Still on my computer are shortcuts to OO 4.1.6, 4.1.9, and 4.1.10.
Ken Howes 

Re: formatting; hyphens, dashes and SpellCheck

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com.INVALID>]

At 20:41 16/12/2021 +0000, Ralph McCrum wrote:
>Good Luck Ken [who asked to be able to turn off all automatic 
>formatting changes].
>I DON'T want automatic bulleting or paragraph numbering And A Few 
>Other Things either. But After The Answers I Got On Bullets And 
>Numbering, I Never Ask About Anything Else. I'll Be Watching To See 
>If You Get Better Answers Than I Did

That's odd, since I explained this on 10 November. What's more, you 
were kind enough to write back and thank me, saying that my 
suggestions "Worked Great And Fixed The Problem".

For the benefit of others, there are two parts to the answer:

o First, the easy way. When you type something that stimulates this 
automatic "correction", the typing and the correction are treated as 
separate actions. This means that you can easily cancel the 
correction using Edit | Undo (or Ctrl+Z), leaving the original typing 
that you intended. Since the automatic facility is often helpful - 
ensuring, for example, that your numbers are properly sequential - 
this may well be the way to go.

o But if you do want to disable the facility, just remove the ticks 
from appropriate options at Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Options 
- in particular, from "Apply numbering - symbol: *".

Brian Barker 


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Re: formatting; hyphens, dashes and SpellCheck

[Ralph McCrum <ra...@ralphmccrum.ws>]

Good Luck Ken.
I DON'T want automatic bulleting or paragraph numbering And A Few Other 
Things either.
But After The Answers I Got On Bullets And Numbering, I Never Ask About 
Anything Else.
I'll Be Watching To See If You Get Better Answers Than I Did
Ralph


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From: "Ken" <fc...@aol.com.invalid>
To: "users@openoffice.apache.org" <us...@openoffice.apache.org>
Sent: 12/16/2021 14:27:05
Subject: formatting; hyphens, dashes and SpellCheck

>I have simply lost track of formatting changes.  I want to undo the lot of them and start over. Particularly I want to turn off Spell Check and restore the hyphen-to-dash feature, and I DON'T want automatic bulleting or paragraph numbering. Community forums aren't helpful because there are a million posts up there, most of which have nothing to do with my problem and most of the rest involve a different computer or a different mistake someone made, and when I do get to a question that looks like mine, the solution given there doesn't work.  I just want to go back to start. What do I do?  I just downloaded and installed Open Office 4.1.11 on my computer, which has Windows 10.  Still on my computer are shortcuts to OO 4.1.6, 4.1.9, and 4.1.10.
>Ken Howes


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