Auto replace; doesnt work with my own entries

[stuartb]

HI

I am trying to write out a very long project, that has much use of m² and ºC, however if i try and use auto correct, for example m<2> replaced with m² it doesnt work, the modified entries appear in the list, but they do not work!!

Also if i modify a standard one allready in the list, it stops working

please can anyone help, ive tried 1.1rc3 and 1.1rc5, but there both the same.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Stuart

[Gabor]

Perhaps you may try macros.
The one below is defjnitely NOT my invention, I only modified it to my needs.

[code]Function insertSpecialChar(sChar)
'sChar is the char to be inserted
Dim oDocument as Object
Dim oText as Object
Dim oVCursor, oCursor As Object
oDocument=thiscomponent
oText = oDocument.Text
' after this, an obscure call gets the current cursor position
oVCursor = oDocument.currentcontroller.getViewCursor()
oText.insertString(oVCursor.getStart(),sChar,false)
End Function

Sub degree
'for example ...
insertSpecialChar("°C")
End Sub

Sub m2
'for example ...
insertSpecialChar("m²")
End Sub[/code]

Include this in Macros>Standard>Module1 (or any other module) and then assign key combinations to them.


On the HOW TO, please go and see

[url]http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10144#10144[/url]
and find DannyB's posts of

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:52 pm
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 4:55 am

[Gabor]

From my above message do not copy these signs only what is in between them
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[JohnV]

There was once a long tread on auto replace not working. Turned out the poster had at some time unchecked the Use Replacement Table item on the Options tab. If this is the case I think you may have to close OO and restart it before the change is recognized (at least I seem to remember there was something unusual like that).