Is there a setting to enforce selected text being replaced when a character is typed?

[BenMees]

Normally if you have text selected and press a character, including punctuation, the text is replaced with that character. But with single quotes, double quotes, or opening parentheses, the text is instead surrounded by the corresponding symbol.

I don’t want this, and it’s constantly tripping me up as my workflow involves going through reducing text to a series of quotes.

Is there a way to change it? Even turning AutoCorrect off doesn’t resolve it.

Version: 24.8.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 48a6bac9e7e268aeb4c3483fcf825c94556d9f92
OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 22631)

[keme1]

As of yet it seems to be an undocumented feature missing information in the application help.

Menu selection Tools - Options
Expand branch Writer and select Formatting aids
The item you are looking for is in the Autocomplete section on that dialog page. Untick!

I believe the section heading there must be Autocomplete. I am reverse translating from my Norwegian UI, and the translation of the item itself is clearly wrong, so I will not attempt to guess what that says in English.

[robleyd]

Auto complete it is, and if tool tips are enabled:

[BenMees]

Thank you, exactly what I was looking for.

[mikekaganski]

@keme1

As of yet it seems to be an undocumented feature.

Documented at least in release notes; relates to tdf#151710.

[Lupp]

Oh my! I never knew of the "enclosing feature", but now that I know I will use it with parentheses (before/left) ([{.
The action for typing " or ' is imo buggy concerning my related setting where I always have switched off the “typographic” apostrophes/quotes: Enclose with characters overrides these settings.
A side-thought: why shouldn’t I hit Del in advance of typing a new text if I intend to use the keyboard anyway?