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You are here: Home / Technology & Internet / How To Turn Off AutoComplete In OpenOffice Writer

How To Turn Off AutoComplete In OpenOffice Writer

November 7, 2009

There is this really annoying feature that OpenOffice Writer offers that I couldn’t figure out how to turn off. It was so annoying that I figured that I would write about it here, just to help out the few souls who need to turn this thing off like I did.

The feature is called “Word Completion” or othewise known as AutoComplete, or auto complete. What ever floats your boat. The annoying thing about this feature is that it, obviously, completes words for you. Does it accurately complete words for you? Not really. What it does do is create a huge number of misspelled words in whatever document you are working on. I was working on something this afternoon and kept wondering why there were all these strange words with weird endings. They all had those squiggly red lines under them indicating they were spelled incorrectly. I finally figured out that the word completion feature was causing this and that I needed to disable it.

Okay, how did I do that? 3 easy steps.

Open OpenOffice Writer and click on Tools and then AutoCorrect Options...

Open OpenOffice Writer and click on Tools and then AutoCorrect Options…

When the AutoCorrect box pops up, click on the Word Completion tab

When the AutoCorrect box pops up, click on the Word Completion tab.

While under the Word Completion tab, uncheck the Enable Word Completion check box

While under the Word Completion tab, uncheck the Enable Word Completion check box.

Then, hit “OK” and you should be good to go. Does this help?


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Comments

  1. Albatross says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:03 am

    Oh thank you, thank you. If I had had to endure one more suggestion that when typing “stan” it might be my intention to complete it with the word “standarfds” (yes, “fds” at the end) I was going to pitch my laptop out a window!

    Reply
  2. Me says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:03 am

    Saved me some time, thanks dude. If Google had put yours first it would have saved me another minute or two.

    Reply
  3. Robert Arjet says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:03 am

    Thank you so much. I’m trying to wean myself off of MS Word, but I had just copied all of my text from Open Office and pasted it into Word because I just can’t write when little auto completion tags kept popping up as I was typing. It’s like having the most annoying person in the world standing right behind me, whispering random words ever few seconds. Who thought that was a good idea?

    Thank you so much for making it easy to disable.

    Reply
  4. You, no wait, Me! says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:04 am

    Thank you for posting this. You’re right, it was really annoying! I just wanna type my paper up and turn that baby in.

    Reply
  5. Louis says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:04 am

    Thanks so much. I wonder for whom this autocomplete feature could ever benefit?

    Reply
  6. HP says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:04 am

    This is really helpful tip. I was looking for this tip on many websites. Your explanation is simple and solved my problem of this annoying auto complete feature.Thanks.

    Reply
  7. Priehl says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:05 am

    Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    Reply
  8. Fay says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:05 am

    Thank you for sharing this. I’ve just wasted ages trying to figure this problem out, and ended up having to do a google search – because of course the help files can never be relied on to give any genuinely helpful information like this! Problem now solved.

    Reply
  9. Amanda says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:06 am

    Oh thank goodness! You are a godsend. This thing was driving me bananas!

    Reply
  10. Javi says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:06 am

    Thanks a lot!! It was making me crazy.

    Reply
  11. Tom says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:06 am

    Thank you very much. I am using Libre Office, and struggling against AutoComplete even in CALC. Really crazy to put that element in the CALC part …

    Reply
  12. Curt OBrien says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:06 am

    THANK YOU!!!!!!

    Reply
  13. Brandy says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:07 am

    Thank you so much! You’re a lifesaver.

    Reply
  14. Coop says

    October 20, 2014 at 11:07 am

    This feature was annoying me to no end. Thank you for the quick fix.

    Reply
  15. ONEWEIRDWORD says

    March 17, 2015 at 3:22 pm

    THANK YOU! Omigoodness, thank you so much for posting this fix!

    Reply
  16. Amanda says

    September 13, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    Thanks very much, helped me to stop a very annoying feature indeed…

    Reply
  17. Blue says

    October 8, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    Oh my god, thank you. That was the most annoying feature since that stupid paperclip.

    Reply
    • Jay Gaulard says

      October 8, 2015 at 8:49 pm

      No problem Blue!

      Reply
  18. Bluehen says

    April 19, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    Thanks so much for this help!

    Reply
  19. Kim Dammers says

    October 18, 2020 at 5:16 am

    I don’t see the tab you show in the screen shot!

    I only have the first three tabs.

    Reply

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