A wee snag with Word completion

MarvinKosh · Newbie Joined: 16 Mar 2011 Posts: 1

This feature is the last tab on AutoCorrect options.

Thing is, it tends to collect a lot of useless words. So for example, if it collects accelerate, accelerating, and accelerated, only one of those entries will be useful, since you need to type pretty far into the word to get the others to show, and then the keystroke saving is minimal at best.

Now, it is entirely possible for the user to turn off 'Collect words' and prune the list, but as soon as they turn it back on, the same useless variations will get collected again. So it would be helpful to bar some words from the list instead of just deleting them, or not add words that are too similar to the ones that are already there.

JohnV · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:20 am Post subject:

This sounds like a feather request but we are just ordinary user here. You can register and make such a request at OpenOffice.org

keme · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:39 am Post subject:

You can cycle through the suggestions with ctrl-tab.

Again, this is not as good keystroke saver as the suggested rejection table, but it may improve the situation a little for those long words.
Additional configurable options tend to cause additional headache to some users. While it would be useful to some, I see the option of a "substitution rejection table" as rather a marginal one, so I'm not sure I'll vote for it.
Nice idea, though (-:: By all means, submit a request for it if the cycling through suggestions is not efficient enough for you.