1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3 4<!-- 5*********************************************************************** 6 * 7 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8 * 9 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10 * 11 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12 * 13 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14 * 15 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18 * 19 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 22 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 23 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 24 * 25 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 26 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 27 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29 * 30 ************************************************************************ 31 --> 32 33 34<meta> 35 <topic id="textswriterguideautocorr_exceptxml" indexer="exclude"> 36 <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Adding Exceptions to the AutoCorrect List</title> 37 <filename>/text/swriter/guide/autocorr_except.xhp</filename> 38 </topic> 39 </meta> 40 <body> 41<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3152887"><bookmark_value>AutoCorrect function; adding exceptions</bookmark_value> 42 <bookmark_value>exceptions; AutoCorrect function</bookmark_value> 43 <bookmark_value>abbreviations</bookmark_value> 44 <bookmark_value>capital letters;avoiding after specific abbreviations</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark><comment>MW added "capital letters;..."</comment> 46<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3152887" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" 47 oldref="10"><variable id="autocorr_except"><link href="text/swriter/guide/autocorr_except.xhp" name="Adding Exceptions to the AutoCorrect List">Adding Exceptions to the AutoCorrect List</link> 48</variable></paragraph> 49 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154254" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="11">You can prevent AutoCorrect from correcting specific abbreviations or words that have mixed capital letters and lowercase letters. </paragraph> 50 <list type="ordered"> 51 <listitem> 52 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155576" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="13">Choose <item type="menuitem">Tools - AutoCorrect Options</item>, and then click the <item type="menuitem">Exceptions</item> tab.</paragraph> 53 </listitem> 54 <listitem> 55 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147762" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="18">Do one of the following:</paragraph> 56 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147786" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="19">Type the abbreviation followed by a period in the <emph>Abbreviations (no subsequent capital) </emph>box and click <emph>New</emph>.</paragraph> 57 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147812" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="20">Type the word in the <emph>Words with TWo INitial CApitals </emph>box and click <emph>New</emph>.</paragraph> 58 </listitem> 59 </list> 60 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144875" role="tip" l10n="U" oldref="17">To quickly undo an AutoCorrect replacement, press <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command 61</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl</defaultinline></switchinline>+Z. This also adds the word or abbreviation that you typed to the AutoCorrect exceptions list.</paragraph> 62 <embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 63 <embed href="text/swriter/guide/auto_spellcheck.xhp#auto_spellcheck"/> 64 </body> 65</helpdocument>