"Always Correct" not working...?

[Hogweed]

Actually, since typing that title, I’ve discovered that it IS working, but in what seems to me a very awkward way…

My typing is very fast, but very poor. Fortunately, the typos I make are generally the same ones, over and over again – so, in Word, when I spell check, I simply click “autocorrect” on any typo, and any time I make it in future, Word corrects it without my having to do anything. So I can type semi-gibberish at great speed, and have perfect text appear on my screen…

I’m currently seriously trying to move from W10/Word to Mint Linux/LibreOffice, but this one feature is, so far, enough to stop me, as I do a lot of writing, and it has to be easy. The trouble is, with LO I have to click twice – once on “Always Correct”, then up the page and once on “Correct”.

It seems crazy that LO “assumes” that, even though I want a particular typo always to be corrected, I don’t want to correct it this time! Or am I missing something? In Word, if I click Autocorrect (the equivalent of “Always Correct”), it corrects the current instance of the typo, and adds it to the Autocorrect list – seems more logical.

Am I right in that this is how it works in LO?

Thanks a lot

[jimk]

In LO 5.4.3.2, I typed “pzzai” then right-clicked and chose Always correct to → pizza.

Now, when I type “pzzai” plus a space again, it instantly changes to “pizza” with no questions asked.

If we go to Tools → Autocorrect → Autocorrect Options then we see “pzzai” in the replace table.

To make it work differently, set up a macro with a hotkey to do whatever you want. I could offer an example macro, but from the question, I’m not entirely clear on the exact steps you are using (and I do not know how it works in MS Word).

EDIT:

There is a bug proposal filed at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75923. Apparently, it’s not considered a bug, although I agree with you – the behavior doesn’t seem good. At the very least, “Always Correct” is a misleading phrase.

The trouble is, with LO I have to click twice.

Instead of clicking, I would use the underlined Alt hotkeys. On my screen, it looks like the underlined letters are Alt+y Alt+r for Always Correct + Correct.

[Hogweed]

And sorry again – tried to add my explanation as a comment, but it said it was too long – not it appears as though I’ve tried to answer my own question. Hope you get me…

[jimk]

That makes sense, but the preferred way on this site is to add multiple comments instead. There’s no limit on the number of comments you can add.

[Hogweed]

Sorry – isn’t it funny, when you think you’ve gone to great care to explain exactly what you’re doing, then you read it back and find it isn’t clear at all.

When you correct an individual word, like you have, it works fine. But that’s not what I do. I wait till I’ve typed the whole paragraph or document in, then click on the little “Spelling and Grammar” icon on the top ribbon, whereupon it runs through the document, highlighting words it doesn’t know, and giving you a dialogue box with various buttons etc.

If I click “Correct”, it fixes the word. But what I want to do is not just correct that instance, but add it to the “Always Correct” list so that it’ll fix it as I type in future. In other words, exactly as you’ve shown in your example of a single word – this doesn’t work when you try to check the whole document as (I hope!) I’ve explained above. When you click the “Always Correct” button, simply nothing happens. If you first click it, then “Correct”, it seems to do what I want, but that’s a real pain.

Thanks