Dear LibreOffice users,

I sat down to work on my novel, having switched
over from MS-DOS/Win-7/MSOffice to
Linux/kubuntu/LibreOffice.

Only now I find the thing I hates most about
Microsoft software, the assumption of the total
idiocy of the user. The incessant prompting. I
will speak in dialect if I want to. I will spell
things the British way when British people are
speaking, also. My spelling is better than the
MicroSoft dictionary's, how dare it prompt or
correct me.

It's guessing at what word I'm about to type!?!?!?

In real time, not when I'm paused, either.

And if I'm paused, it's because I'm thinking, and
I want to be alone with my thoughts, not staring at
a nonsensical ending to the half-word I've typed.

How can anyone work that way?

This is why I'm addicted to Emacs.

Please help me find this feature and turn it off.
...or better, strangle it until it is blue-headed
and dead. I have a thousand-page manuscript in
MS-Word format, and need to make a small structural
change, namely to change the character of a character,
so to be more likable, and that means leaving the
plot alone and going in and editing her dialog,
internal and external. I don't need distractions.
I have a one-year-old for that.

Thank you.

Tools-->Autocorrect Options-->Options

Tools-->Options-->Language Settings-->Writing Aids-->Options

Good luck.

Thanks, will try.

--Nerodog.

Disable "autocomplete", that's what guesses what you want to type. I agree - it's a nuisance.

Under the Writing Aids options I'd turn off pretty much any added features like, "Check spelling as you type", "Check grammar as you type", and so forth. I personally don't have an AutoComplete option per se.

And I LOVE the idea of sticking with emacs by the way!

Heh heh, good luck and let us know when the novel's published.