AutoCompletion in OpenOffice

Have you ever been annoyed by that auto completion in OpenOffice. Sometimes it is handy, but most of the time I find it annoying.

Here is how to turn it off for Writer, the word processor.

1. Open Writer
2. Go to Format > AutoCorrect > AutoCorrect Options...
3. Navigate to the last tab "Word Completion"
4. Uncheck "Enable word completion"

Here is how to turn it off in Calc, the spreadsheet application.

1. Open Calc
2. Uncheck Tools > Cell Contents > AutoInput
3. When the "AutoInput" label does not have a check mark next to it the auto-complete function is turned off.

I hope you find this helpful.

Giving Open Office Some Skin

No you can't actually change too many of the skins in OO.O, atleast not the way you want to. So what do we do? We tell the company what we want (surprised?), they aren't MicroSoft, so don't treat them that way.

http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=18829

Sign up for an account and then go to that website and hit "vote" The most votes you can add to the thread are 2. So toss them up there along with a comment, and we may actually see this in the next iteration.

Open Office .org : Defaulting to .doc

Sick of odf (open document format) being the standard format? me too, let's change it

1. Open up your Open Office program of choice
2. Go to Tools
3. Go to Options (you will have to click the little + sign to expand the options there)
4. Click on General
5. At the bottom you'll see something labeled Default File Format (hazaa the holy grail)
6. Make sure that Text Document is selected under the Document type heading
7. Under the Always save as heading scroll up to Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP
   Now let's rock this a bit further and address file format's for Excel and PowerPoint
8. Select Spreadsheet under the Document type heading and scroll to Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP
9. Select Presentation under the Document type heading and scroll to Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP **make sure not to click on the one that ends in template**

woo-hoo it feels good to be feel free from the tirrany of open/free software and back in the safe haven of a money mongering conglomerate! (err... wait)