how do I stop the system from trying to complete my words or sentences for me?
I am using LibreOffice to write papers. Far too frequently when I hit the space bar it keeps writing, letters I have not told it to write.
actually I had somehow fixed settings in order to stop this twice before when some very nice person unknown to me, helped me with step by step instructions. but the system refuses to abide by my settings for longer than about a month. and it has never NOT ONCE completed a word or phrase or sentence correctly... so often I have to go back and reread everything I have written to find and undo all the changes the system makes. and I cannot find the instructions from before.
and I can NEVER find any user manual type instructions for libre office anywhere...
Anywhere? Have you even looked at the LibreOffice website for documentation?
Hope this helps.
@ve3oat I've been at the LibreOffice website at least 2 dozen times and could never figure out how to navigate it to find anything helpful. your link provided Me with the "Quick Reference Card" which I have now downloaded and renamed something understandable such as "LibreOffice Help, quick reference guide" so now I can try to figure out how to use it. when I tried the "help online" I got so quickly lost that I simply quickly backed out of it. as far as the books are concerned, I don't know if I have 6.0, 6.2, 6.3,6.4 or what and I followed Instructions given to learn the answer to that question and could not find it... all I got was that "Libre Office help is not installed on your computer" with no instructions to change that status... that is STILL all I get ...(plus)
@ve3oat oh no. turns out the link is no help at all. I click on the quick reference card and all it allows me to do is to download it. then I go to the downloaded reference and other than an explanation of the control-_ ways to do things I already know how to do (differently) there is no help there... nothing is linkable, lots makes little or no sense to me. and for example, nowhere does it talk about how to number the pages in the 75 or more papers I produce annually that I distribute to hundreds, sometimes thousands of people. the last one was 19 pages - without numbers. oh well.
You can buy a printed copy of many of the guide books, for example, this one for Writer v6.0 :
https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/writer/
Later versions (6.2, 6.4) of the same basic product (6.0) with have added features and improvements but they are all basically the same. Reading the book at your leisure can be a good way to understand how the software works and to avoid frustration in using many of the features. (At my age, I prefer paper copies over trying to read instructions and explanations on-line.)