Hello everyone,
As the title says, my autocorrect doesn’t work while typing, or better: it works sometime… maybe.
If I type → for example and then hit enter, the autocorrect correctly kicks in and I get →. But autocorrect refuses to do much else. Capitalize letters after a “.” or when on a new line (after pressing enter)? Nope. Correct TWo INitial CApitals? Nope.
I managed to make it works only one time (really don’t know how), then it stopped working again.
I looked around and saw the same issues was reported several times few years ago, I tried to follow instructions but nothing seem to fix the problem.
Before anyone asks:
- Yes, the language of the document is set correctly. Both UK (English) and Italy (Italian) languages seem to be affected by this issue.
- Yes, I’ve purged my profile and tried again with a clean one. No results.
- Yes, the problem persists even in Safe Mode.
- If I go Tool → Language, there is a check mark only for “For selection”. Writer refuses to put the check mark for “Paragraph” and “all Text”. The languages are correctly listed there, but when I try to check one of them, nothing happens.
- If I go to Tool → Autocorrect, “while typing” is enabled. If I go to Tool → Autocorrect → Autocorrect Options → Options, the "Capitalize first letter of every sentence is enable for both [M] and [T], same with the other default options.
- If I manually apply Autocorrect with Tool-> Autocorrect → Apply or Apply and Edit Changes, Autocorrect correctly detects the issues and prompt me with the needed corrections.
Some other infos:
Libre Office version: 25.2.7.2 (installed via Discover Software Center)
O/S: Fedora 42 (linux 6.18)
Autocorr-en and -it versions are: 1:25.2.7.2-1.fc42.noarch
I tried to install LibreOffice v. 25.8.4 from the website (rpm 64bit) using the Instructions provided by Documentation. The problem persists (and on top of that I’ve a very annoying additional problem where every time I hover the mouse on a menu, it detaches and moves in the middle of screen, creating a new window called soffice.bin, but that’s another whole problem).
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers.