Summary: | Functionality request for Calc EDITING: Improve word completion | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | jbotte <james_botte> |
Component: | Spreadsheet | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | medium | CC: | james_botte, sasha.libreoffice |
Version: | 3.5.0 release | ||
Hardware: | x86-64 (AMD64) | ||
OS: | Windows (All) | ||
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Description
jbotte
2012-03-04 01:50:16 UTC
I re-installed OpenOffice.org and realized LibreOffice behaved the same way. When I used the OpenOffice.org Help system, it quickly located the relevant function to disable the problematic behaviour. Specifically, the option was under Tools->Cell Contents->AutoInput. This worked in LibreOffice exactly the same way and did result in the word completion being disabled. As a note, I did search the online LibreOffice help using "word completion" and several other things I thought of and no hints were provided in how to turn this off in Calc. So, I'm not sure if this is a user interface issue (because the same logical functionality is managed in different ways depending on whether Writer or Calc is used), or a documentation issue, but I do believe it remains a usability issue. As an example, there is a bug report from OpenSUSE that was the only reference I found to turning off word completion in Calc (all other references were for Writer), and nobody in that thread seems to have known about the "AutoInput" control: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700415 As a final comment, the fact that it is an on/off flag in the actual menus seems a little bit of a UI overkill, implying that people are going to want to switch back and forth between word completion and not often (vs. putting it in the Tools->Options... menu). In general, I will either have it on for a document or off, but it's possible it should be a "quick access" feature if others use it often enough. Thanks for new idea Use this option: Tools->Cell content->Auto input to disable auto-completion AFAIK currently impossible to set auto completion to specific area on sheet, only for all Calc simultaneously. IMHO it would be useful to set auto-completion to that area on sheet where it makes sense, and disable for all other cells. Please, describe ideas about improving auto-completion here Noel Grandin <noelgrandin@gmail.com> changed status to NEW |
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