Auto-capitalise first letter of sentences not working

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#1

’m trying to get familiar with LibreOffice Writer and have enabled “Capitalise first letter of every sentence” in AutoCorrect. I’ve checked the obvious settings and made sure AutoCorrect while typing is enabled.

However, when I finish a sentence with a full stop and start the next word, nothing happens. If I go into AutoCorrect and manually click Apply, it correctly capitalises everything.

So the rule itself works, it just doesn’t seem to trigger automatically while typing.

I’m using LibreOffice 25 on Linux.
Has anyone else experienced this or knows what I might be missing?

More info:
Here’s some more info:

Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community

Build ID: 580(Build:2)

CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.19; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+wayland)

Distro: openSuse Tumbleweed (same on Slowroll)

Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB

Also, I’ve tried running is safe-mode and I’ve tried removing my profile.

Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:
(I have searched for similar threads but they were several years old and didn’t have solutions)

#2

There are two enabling “switches”.

  • a detailed switch in Tools>AutoCorrect>AutoCorrect Option as a checkbox for every option in Options tab so that you control precisely what is auto-corrected
  • a global switch as a checkbox in menu Tools>AutoCorrect>While Typing to enable the feature as a whole

If the global switch is not ticked, nothing happens.

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#3

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Thanks for your reply. I’ve checked and unchecked and rechecked those. I’ve also global checkbox checked at Tools >AutoCorrect >While Typing as well. still getting the same result.

#4

need to finish the word (with space) to actually get it capitalized.

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#5

Thanks. I have tried that more times than I can count.
I’ve even booted up a live distro (Fedora) and capitazing worked fine. I’m wondering if it’s specific to openSUSE because I have the same issue on both openSUSE machines.

#6

shipped by suse ?

can you try TDF’s → Download LibreOffice | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

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#7

For me, just a period (.)

No need of Space with:
Version: 25.2.7.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 520(Build:1)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: es-MX (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

In openSUSE Leap 15.6.

EDIT:

Yes; that’s the key, may it be a space or a period.
I tested with a sentence just a word long. :smile:

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#8

makes the sentence short :wink:

yeah, any punctuation would work too.
Options (AutoCorrect)

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#9

That was a good idea. I removed the shipped version and installed from the link you provided but it’s still produced the same results. It’s making me think it’s something outside of LibreOffice interfering perhaps?

#10

reset your profile ?

maybe …

maybe try gen → Development/Environment variables - The Document Foundation Wiki

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