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How do you turn off autocorrect in Libre Office Writer?

Sometimes I think i've turned it off then it turns out there's some feature of it that appears and wasn't turned off.

I'm wondering if there's one single option that turns it off. Or if not, then what are all the places you have to tick/untick, to turn it off completely.

Here are the options I see in the menu

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No off button.

Not sure what difference is between "apply" and "while typing".

Then, if I go to autocorrect options, I see Five tabs

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I had a problem where I was writing some sequences of letters like "2s2 3p1" or "s2 p3" or things like that, and it was capitalising the s in some cases.

So I went to the exceptions tab, and unticked both "autoinclude boxes"

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I looked in the options tab, do I really have to untick every single thing here in order to turn off autocorrect?

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And then I saw it was doing more autocorrections, really bad ones, changing the word "energy"(which was spelt fine) to something else.

I see there's a tab "word completion"

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I've now unticked "enable word completion" and I unticked "collect words" too.

I haven't gone into the "localized options" tab.

Do I really have to untick everything in every tab to turn the thing off?!

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    As per help.libreoffice.org/6.2/en-US/text/swriter/guide/auto_off.html you should be able to simply remove the checkmark from "While Typing". Does that not work?
    – Peregrino69
    Commented Feb 6, 2023 at 15:11
  • Also turn it off in any template you use.
    – DrMoishe Pippik
    Commented Feb 6, 2023 at 16:17
  • @Peregrino69 To the question of, can that tick be removed, yes, turns out it's a checkmark and can be toggled off. (I had thought maybe it'd only shift to another option like an option button selection). I guess that might have turned off the autocompletion (though hard to know 'cos I haven't had what looks like consistent behaviour from it even when it's on. But seems like it might work
    – barlop
    Commented Feb 6, 2023 at 17:55
  • @Peregrino69 you can post that as an answer
    – barlop
    Commented Feb 6, 2023 at 17:55

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As per https://help.libreoffice.org/6.2/en-US/text/swriter/guide/auto_off.html removing checkmark from the Tools - AutoCorrect - While Typing disables AutoCorrect completely.

Added by barlop

So

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  • I think your comment was good were you to have posted it as an answer as suggeted, but you've added something about templates. Where are you getting about templates? suppose it was enabled in some template, then wouldn't that then cause a check to be there? So long as there is no check there then autocorrect is disabled, regardless of "templates".
    – barlop
    Commented Feb 6, 2023 at 20:50
  • I got it from @DrMoishe's comment. I actually agree with you, don't believe a template would affect this but as I don't have LO installed on this system I can't verify. I put it there just for completeness.
    – Peregrino69
    Commented Feb 6, 2023 at 20:56
  • He is not a doctor, and "moishe pippik" is a joke name. And Pippik is a joke surname, it means "belly button",.. So if you are going to refer to him by one of his names then "pippik" rather than the fake title of "Dr", , would be more appropriate. (If one is to refer to him at all)
    – barlop
    Commented Feb 6, 2023 at 21:48
  • You should have pushed him on its relevance, but anyhow, glad you removed that info that we agree isn't relevant, from your answer.
    – barlop
    Commented Feb 6, 2023 at 21:52
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    Egad! Sometimes I wonder if the designers / engineers / etc. responsible for a product actually ever use the product...
    – Peregrino69
    Commented Feb 6, 2023 at 23:06
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Disabling that Tools > AutoCorrect > While Typing was not enough for me. To get rid ot those red wavy underlines, I also had to click on Tools > Language > For All Text > None.

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