Fw: What happened to OO AutoCorrect ?

[Temlakos]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 15:29, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> 
>>All,
>>
>>I asked on the OO Users list about the Autocorrect facility in OO:
>>
>>ME> I keep wondering where AutoCorrect has gone.
>>
>>OO> It's still there in the original OOo builds.
>>
>>ME> It is still documented in the help system, but when you try
>>ME> Tools->AutoCorrect, the 'Replacement' tab is not present (this on
>>ME> OO 2.0 on FC4).
>>
>>OO> If so, it seems RedHat preferred to remove the functionality in their
>>OO> build.
>>
>>Can anyone else confirm either the behaviour or the decision ?  Why isn't
>>the functionality there, and if it had to go, why not remove it from the
>>help system ?
>>
> 
> I can confirm that there is no Replacement tab on my FC4 system.  I don't use 
> autocorrection, so I hadn't noticed.
> 
> Anne
> 

Where in the name of Richard Stallman has everybody /been/? The 
AutoCorrect Replacement tab has not been available in OpenOffice since 
Fedora Core /One/! As a result, I have never been able to produce a 
one-character ellipsis without inserting it as a special character and 
then finding-and-replacing every instance of three periods with the 
ellipsis.

Nor have I been able to achieve automatic replacement of (c) or (R) with 
the circle-c and circle-R copyright and registered-trademark symbols.

Auto-correction has been one of my most important features. Doing 
without the Replacement tab has been for me a constant source of 
annoyance--made worse because I didn't know whom to complain to about it.

What I really would like to know is: where do I go to put the 
functionality /back/ into OpenOffice? Must I remove OpenOffice entirely 
and then rebuild it from source using a tarball from OpenOffice.org?

Temlakos