Writer Guide

Hyphenate without inquiry specifies that you will never be asked to
manually hyphenate words that the hyphenation dictionary does not
recognize. If this box is not selected, when a word is not recognized, a
dialog box will open where you can manually enter hyphens.
Hyphenate special regions specifies that hyphenation will also be
carried out in footnotes, headers, and footers.
Note
Hyphenation options set on the Writing Aids dialog box are
effective only if hyphenation is turned on through paragraph
styles.
Choices on the Writing Aids dialog box for “characters before
line break” and “characters after line break” override settings
in paragraph styles for “characters at line end” and
“characters at line begin”.
To enter a conditional hyphen inside a word, press Control+minus
sign . The word is hyphenated at this position when it is at the end of
the line, even if automatic hyphenation for this paragraph is switched
off.
Using AutoCorrect
Writer’s AutoCorrect function has a long list of common misspellings
and typing errors, which it corrects automatically. For example, “hte”
will be changed to “the”. Select Tools > AutoCorrect to open the
AutoCorrect dialog box. There you can define what strings of text are
corrected and how. In most cases, the defaults are fine.
Tip
AutoCorrect is automatically turned on. To turn it off, uncheck
Format > AutoFormat > While Typing.
• To stop Writer replacing a specific spelling, use Tools >
AutoCorrect > Replace, highlight the word pair and click
Delete.
• To add a new spelling to correct, type it into the Replace and With
boxes and click New.
• See the different pages of the dialog box for the wide variety of
other options available to fine-tune AutoCorrect.
Tip
AutoCorrect can be used as a quick way to insert special
characters. For example, (c) will be autocorrected to ©. You
can add your own special characters.
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