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Yaotl Altan
Yaotl Altan  Identity Verified
Mexico
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English to Spanish
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Jan 2, 2015

Hello, I am translating a text using Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 and wanted to use the Auto Completion function. With this is a feature, users are able to press a set key (tab, enter, etc.) to put words on the text rather than typing them. This is, the text processor predicts them according to what users have written.

But I could not use it even if I had translated several pages. Then I noticed something weird. There's a window in menu Tools >> Auto Correction options... and in its... See more
Hello, I am translating a text using Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 and wanted to use the Auto Completion function. With this is a feature, users are able to press a set key (tab, enter, etc.) to put words on the text rather than typing them. This is, the text processor predicts them according to what users have written.

But I could not use it even if I had translated several pages. Then I noticed something weird. There's a window in menu Tools >> Auto Correction options... and in its upper part there was my language , Spanish(Mexican), but it was disabled. The box designed to show all the collected words was empty! I was not able to enable it, why? What should I to activate it? I want to know

Fortunately, I selected the whole text and applied the Spanish(Spain) language and the Auto Completion function worked. And the box has lots of collected words!

I can't understand the discrimination of my language variant.

Thank you in advancement for your help. ▲ Collapse
 
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
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English to Afrikaans
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Post to OOo forum instead Jan 2, 2015

Yaotl Altan wrote:
There's a window in menu Tools >> Auto Correction options... and in its upper part there was my language , Spanish (Mexican), but it was disabled. ... Fortunately, I selected the whole text and applied the Spanish(Spain) language and the Auto Completion function worked. And the box has lots of collected words!


There is a dedicated forum for OpenOffice here:
https://forum.openoffice.org/
Did you ask those guys? Don't use the word "discrimination", though. Just say that you're struggling to enable it.
 
LilianNekipelov
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United States
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I do not think it is discrimination --it is an almost free software: Jan 2, 2015

free, or very low cost, so people should rather be thankful that it exists at all. It is a very good software program for the English language. I used to have it on one computer plus it was created through a cultural project by our Native American people which has mede it even more interesting and inspiring--this is mostly why I got it.


[Edited at 2015-01-02 10:41 GMT]
 
Yaotl Altan
Yaotl Altan  Identity Verified
Mexico
Local time: 04:11
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
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Right Jan 2, 2015

Lilian, Samuel:

Yes, you are right. I think "discrimination" is not a proper word in this context. Sorry for this, and sorry, OpenOffice.

Yes, I've been using it since 2008 and all the OO suite is very good.
 


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