
Recently, I’ve had a number of readers ask me about the differences between the two foremost open-source office suites.

If you've ever wanted to know the major differences between LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice, Jack Wallen lays them out to help you make a choice. This entry was posted in Remember This and tagged Open Office, Ubuntu on Septemby Kirrus.What’s the difference between LibreOffice and OpenOffice? Otherwise, untick it, to save memory, and a little bit of processor power whilst you’re working. If you’re just turning the feature off for a little while, leave it ticked. Note: if you leave “collect words” ticked, the system will still collect words to Auto Complete, but won’t actually use them. Your Open Office will no longer automatically try to predict what you’re typing. Now, untick the box that says “Enable Word Completion”. Click on “ Tools” > “ AutoCorrect…” > Click on the “ Word Completion” tab. If you just can’t get it quite to work how you want, then your last resort is to disable the feature. Note: The image has been cropped to make it fit. Click on the word you want to remove (In this case, Disneyland), and click the “Delete Entry” button. To fix this the only response, is to find and delete the offending word from the predictive system. An example of this, is if you have used “Disneyland” in a document, and then want to type “Disney” Open Office will keep auto-completing to “Disneyland”. Sometimes, the predictive system just gets confused. Tweak this for how much you want to use the predictive system. Less than that, and you’re going to get it trying to auto complete too-short words, and get confused. Make sure that the minimum word length is at least 8.

Here are a couple of things you can try to make it more useful.Ĭlick on “Tools” > “AutoCorrect…” > Click on the “Word Completion” tab.

Also, Open Office call it “Word Completion” Configure Open Office Predictive Text Don’t ask me why, as to my mind at least, that’s a completely illogical place to put it.

Now, Open Office predictive text, actually comes under auto-complete. However, it can also be a bit dumb at times. Open Office keeps automatically trying to guess what you’re typing? Sometimes it can be useful, especially if you’re doing something quite repetitive.
