I guess I'm not computer savvy enough to adequately follow all that's required. In writer>tools>options>word complete is enabled but doesn't work on any files. User Data is completed but not all files will open at last edit. One in particular always opens at same point about halfway through.
Thank you for reporting the bug. Could you please try to reproduce it with the latest version of LibreOffice from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ? I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version. Change to RESOLVED WORKSFORME, if the problem went away. A second hint: You describe two different issues in one report. Please reduce this report to one problem and open a second report for the other problem. Thank you.
Received a reply from LO bug report so I’ll try that. Although it added “fresh” to the download address, all it did was direct me to the more advanced 7.4.3.2 version which I’d already tried. After downloading and installing 7.4.3.2, on checking autocorrect, the word completion option retains the same settings including word list as before. I’m testing ‘Amitriptyline’ and that didn’t complete or even correct the word. Set Amitriptylyne to auto correct and it still doesn’t even do that! This feature did work on previous versions of LO, but that was on W10 -might there be some significance due to now being on W11? Solved the issue of not opening to the last edit by cutting out of the documents the sections, about halfway through, where they were opening to.
O.K., let's focus the bug on problem with word completion. I did some tests and as far as I can see, it is necessary, that only words, that are part of a dictionary, are collected. So please try as follows: 1. Write "Amitriptyline" (not collected in AutoCorrect -> Word Completion) 2. Add it to dictionary (not collected in AutoCorrect -> Word Completion) 3. Write again "Amitriptyline" (now it's collected in AutoCorrect -> Word Completion) 4. Write "Ami" (suggestion for word completion) Could you please restest with those steps? => NEEDINFO So for me word completion works as expected, but I think documentation should give information, that only words, that a pat of the dictionary, are collected.
Informations on help page: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.4/en-GB/text/shared/01/06040600.html?System=WIN&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=cui/ui/wordcompletionpage/WordCompletionPage#bm_id4897916
Created attachment 183106 [details] Reply to suggested solution to word completion problem • These suggestions, and others (including unsuccessful attempts to delete User Profile) have all been tried, both via LO help and general help online, with an extensive word list figuring through all updates, re-installs, changes of option settings, full deletion of list and starting from scratch etc. Elsewhere, throughout appropriate programs in W11, the autocorrect feature works correctly – e.g. gmail etc. • • Thanks for trying, but this does seem intractable.
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(In reply to Dieter from comment #3) > O.K., let's focus the bug on problem with word completion. I did some tests > and as far as I can see, it is necessary, that only words, that are part of > a dictionary, are collected. > > So please try as follows: > 1. Write "Amitriptyline" (not collected in AutoCorrect -> Word Completion) > 2. Add it to dictionary (not collected in AutoCorrect -> Word Completion) > 3. Write again "Amitriptyline" (now it's collected in AutoCorrect -> Word > Completion) > 4. Write "Ami" (suggestion for word completion) Similar results..
(In reply to gmhvd43 from comment #5) > Created attachment 183106 [details] > Reply to suggested solution to word completion problem Attacment contains a picture of a girl. Don't understand that. Please use steps from comment 3 and add the result you get after each step.
I'm extremely sorry about the picture. No idea why that's happened, except that I was tring to send you a screen shot which then got tangled up with One Drive. It's obvious that, as I intimated at the beginning of this, I don't profess to be a digital guru, but that doesn't preclude me using word processors in the manner in which they are intended. I'm unfamiliar obviously with this bug process, and as I tried to report on last reply, I have tried all sorts of suggested solutions / workarounds and nothing works. So, I am resigning myself to living with the problem. Once again, sorry for wasting your time. These suggestions, and others (including unsuccessful attempts to delete User Profile) have all been tried, both via LO help and general help online, with an extensive word list figuring through all updates, re-installs, changes of option settings, full deletion of list and starting from scratch etc. Elsewhere, throughout appropriate programs in W11, the autocorrect feature works correctly – e.g. gmail etc. • • Thanks for trying, but this does seem intractable.
So last try: gmhvd43, please take my steps from comment 3 and describe your results => NEEDINFO If this doesn't make sence for you, I would close this bug and open a new one for adding the relevant information about word completion and dictionary.
Following suggestions in comment 3. (NB I’m drawing a distinction between “word list” and “dictionary” as I’m not aware of any means to manually add a word to either, except to word list by virtue of deliberately mis-spelling. All language options that I can see are set to English UK.) Typed Amitriptyline with word complete disabled, and existing word list deleted. Activated Word complete with default settings and empty word list – setting not to delete collected list on exit. Typed Amitripyline – responded with red underline (ie mis-spelt). Pop up offers correct spelling even though auto correct word list doesn’t include correct spelling Amitriptyline, and although it has added 4 words from those just written – “complete, settings, spelling, underline”. Typed Amitriptyline – that didn’t prompt any response. No option I’m aware of to manually add to word list. But it has added Amitriptyline to those now listed there amongst those above. Typed Ami – that didn’t prompt any response at all.
(In reply to gmhvd43 from comment #11) > Typed Amitripyline – responded with red underline (ie mis-spelt). If it is red underlined, it is not part of your dictionary. So open context menu and select "Add to Dictionary". Go on with step 3 from comment 3 => Does this solve your problem?
Thanks again for trying. The most fundamental actions as you suggested have long been tried in the very early days of this issue. Specifically,I deliberately mis spelled Amitriptyline so you could see that the global dictionary does ALREADY know the word as it was ADDED long ago to the global dictionary, and has lived for many moons in the LO word list. You can rest assured that I have tried all the options and tweaks that any lay person of marginal intelligence would try. I would only resort to this approach as a final last ditch attempt to seek the help of more sophisticated experts. I have now solved both the issues I first raised myself - by reverting to my original good old Open Office!! So I was beguiled by the suggestion that Libre Office was the recommended improved offering from OO but obviously mistaken to do so. Please accept my apologies for troubling you with this, which I now regard as a closed request. H V Dyson