A friend found this for me via Google when I was bitching on our chatroom about the Autocomplete. Talk about an incredibly distracting 'feature' and it is buried in the gazillion menus of settings. Thanks for posting this and letting google snarf it up. -Kit

Yeah, thanks a lot - I found this small yet informative page from Google (snarf??) and it worked. Thx again...

This site is the #1 link on google for the search "open office autocomplete" (without the quotes in the search).

I wonder why.

Oh, and thanks.

Oh, my, lord. That function is the absolute worst ever in the history of horrible functions. I nearly deleted open office.

This is also the 'Feeling Lucky' google for "open office autocomplete disable". Y'all are my heros for the day.

Another person from Google query "open office disable auto-completion" saying loud "Thanks!" =)

Thank you so much.... phew.

Thanks!!
The last half hour I've been looking for a way to disable this feature, and it was really this simple!! :)

Thanks again!

Nice one! I also found this through Google, it was well worth posting.

another openoffice autocomplete victim here.

thank you.

And me. Thanks for posting this and here's hoping the OOo developers will see sense and switch this off by default.

This doesn't seem to work in OpenOffice 2.0 as I can't find an AutoFormat option in AutoCorrect.

In OpenOffice 2.0 it's practically identical:

Tools > AutoCorrect > Word Completion

I enabled the 'Show as tip' option, personally - far less distracting.

#1 Hit on Google for "Openoffice Autocompletion" lol

Everybody write your google search here if it wasn't already listed by somebody else:

openoffice disable autocomplete

Heh, me too - openoffice disable autocomplete - who is the lame programmer who decided that should be enabled by default, or even at all useful at any time?

Thank you for this.
Very annoying and well-hidden "feature."

Thanks a lot. I hate this annoyance and disabled it too, grrrh....

Thanks for the info. This is one "feature" that should be left off by default. I guess they were drinking heavily at that development meeting.

It's worse in oo2. It collects words. Yes, that's as bad as it sounds.

My search was "disable autocomplete openoffice"

OK, I have autocomplete turned off in my OO2.0 text documents. Anyone know how to do it in spreadsheets? The "tools - autocorrect - word completion" tab is missing in the spreadsheet dialogue and it's driving me crazy!

In Calc, it's Tools > Cell Contents > AutoInput.

In Calc, it's Tools > Cell Contents > AutoInput

This feature bugged the hell out of me, thanks for the info.

Thanks!

thanks here too....

Oh man, I've been looking for this for months. I'm glad that the first result on Google gave me this. Thanks, man.

Great stuff (The AutoComplete tip; not the "Fleshlight" ad...!)

Thank you.

WORST. FEATURE. EVER! Glad you were there for me to get rid of this damn thing.

THANKS!

it's too bad that you can't modify the "word completion" to start after you have typed a set # of characters... for instance, every time i type 'the,' it tries to predict 'theoretically.' how many times in a single document does the word 'the' appear? roughly 40 times on this page alone... just incase you were wondering. however, if i could set it to guess 'theoretically' after typing 'theor,' that would solve my problems... i think.

"Tools -> Cell Contents -> AutoInput"

Thank you so much. I never would have looked there. OOo would be so much better (for me) if they didn't focus so much on adding annoying bells and whistles to imitate MS Office.

Now that's some interesting penis enlargement spam. I wonder how they generated that.

I actually like this feature. Originally when I used this feature, I could add a ton of words by copy pasting it in to a field. I think that functionality has been discontinued. hmm...

You.... auotcomplete me.

"Tools -> Cell Contents -> AutoInput"

openoffice autocomplete

annoying setting to remove

Thank you so much!
Openoffice auto complete ---> WORST "FEATURE" EVER!

Thanks for helping me disable it!

OOO is the worst piece of software ever. If you are afflicted with this absolute piece of garbage, at least there are helpful pages like this to explain how to lower it's annoyance level from "vile" to merely "evil".

The Dev's of this crap are going to have to explain themselves someday. .

Thanks for that. Also got here from google. Autocomplete can be done well but it is shockingly bad in OpenOffice. Thanks for helping me get rid of that nonsense.

Got here through
"openoffice.org 2.0" disable autocomplete
Terrible, terrible UI design (or lack thereof). Doesn't anyone study HCI anymore? Bleh.

I concur with wintersweet; thanks for posting the information though, so that Google could guide me here.

Surprisingly I like the auto complete. I was searching to make OO auto complete with less characters. Hey, you still helped do it. Thanx

This page continues to be incredibly helpful,
and continues to come up first in the rankings
(on Google anyway).
Like the previous poster,
I actually ++like++ this feature, but
(perhaps unlike them) not in Calc.
++Sometimes++ it helps me in Calc,
but more often it gets it wrong,
and gets in the way.
Tnx.

Thank you so much!

Thanks. I was getting frustrated with OpenOffice for a while there. This option sure is buried deeply for something that most users will want to disable immediately. I wonder why it is even active by default?

Google: openoffice autocomplete.
I saw the "feature" and couldn't figure out how to use it! Type a few letters, some suggestion appears, then what? End? Tab? Right arrow? Ctl-shift-alt-esc-F1-home? Anyhow, now I know the default to accept the "feature" is to push the Enter key. It's a bonus to know how to shut it off.
I shut it off. Thanks.